S.I. No. 674/2025 - Ethics in Public Office (Prescribed Public Bodies, Designated Directorships of Public Bodies and Designated Positions in Public Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 6th January, 2026.

I, JACK CHAMBERS, Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of, and paragraph 1(13) of the First Schedule to, the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 (No. 22 of 1995) (as adapted by the Standards in Public Office (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2023 ( S.I. No. 367 of 2023 ) and the Public Expenditure National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2025 ( S.I. No. 243 of 2025 )) and being of the opinion that each body, organisation or group prescribed in the following regulations, ought, in the public interest and having regard to the provisions and spirit of that Act, to be prescribed, and after consultation with every Minister of the Government, hereby make the following regulations:

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• (a) by the substitution of the following Regulation for Regulation 8 (amended by Regulation 2(a) of the Ethics in Public Office (Prescribed Public Bodies, Designated Directorships of Public Bodies and Designated Positions in Public Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 ( S.I. No. 484 of 2018 )):

“8. The following are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(13) of the First Schedule to the Act:

• (a) Abbey Theatre - Amharclann na Mainistreach;

• (b) Avista CLG;

• (c) Brothers of Charity Services Ireland;

• (d) The National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh DAC;

• (e) Carriglea Cairde Services;

• (f) Cheeverstown House CLG;

• (g) Chester Beatty Library;

• (h) The Children’s Sunshine Home (LauraLynn Children’s Hospice);

• (i) Coombe Lying-In Hospital;

• (j) Cope Foundation;

• (k) Crafts Council of Ireland CLG;

• (l) The Economic and Social Research Institute;

• (m) The Galway Hospice Foundation CLG;

• (n) Horse Sport Ireland;

• (o) The Institute of Public Administration;

• (p) Integrated Local Development Companies;

• (q) Irish Cattle Breeding Federation Society Limited (ICBF);

• (r) The Irish Heritage Trust CLG;

• (s) Irish Horse Board Co-Operative Society Limited;

• (t) Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board CLG;

• (u) KARE, Promoting Inclusion For People With Intellectual Disabilities;

• (v) Marino Institute of Education;

• (w) Mary Immaculate College - Limerick - Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál;

• (x) Marymount University Hospital & Hospice;

• (y) Mater Misericordiae University Hospital;

• (z) Milford Care Centre;

• (aa) Muiriosa Foundation;

• (ab) National College of Ireland;

• (ac) National Maternity Hospital;

• (ad) Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services;

• (ae) The Rotunda Hospital;

• (af) The Royal Hospital Donnybrook;

• (ag) St. Francis Hospice Dublin;

• (ah) St John’s Hospital;

• (ai) St. John of God Community Services CLG;

• (aj) St Michael’s Hospital;

• (ak) St. Michael’s House Group;

• (al) St. Patrick’s Centre (Kilkenny);

• (am) St. Vincent’s Hospital Fairview;

• (an) St Vincent’s University Hospital;

• (ao) Skillnet Ireland CLG;

• (ap) South Infirmary - Victoria University Hospital;

• (aq) Stewarts Care Ltd;

• (ar) Sunbeam House Services CLG;

• (as) Urban Partnerships.”,

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• (b) by the substitution of the following Schedule for the Schedule (amended by Regulation 2(b) of the Ethics in Public Office (Prescribed Public Bodies, Designated Directorships of Public Bodies and Designated Positions in Public Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 ( S.I. No. 484 of 2018 )):