Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Act 2024

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Number 16 of 2024


FUTURE IRELAND FUND AND INFRASTRUCTURE, CLIMATE AND NATURE FUND ACT 2024


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Definitions

3. Expenses

PART 2

Future Ireland Fund

4. Definitions (Part 2)

5. Establishment, purpose, control and management of FI Fund

6. Investment policy for FI Fund

7. Investment strategy for FI Fund

8. Payments into FI Fund

9. Payments into FI Fund where deterioration in economic or fiscal position of State

10. Report by Agency to Minister on proposed payments from FI Fund to Exchequer

11. Payments from FI Fund to Exchequer

12. Delay in certain payments from FI Fund to Exchequer

PART 3

Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund

13. Definitions (Part 3)

14. Establishment, purpose, control and management of ICN Fund

15. Investment policy for ICN Fund

16. Investment strategy for ICN Fund

17. Payments into ICN Fund

18. Payments into ICN Fund from 2025 to 2030 where deterioration in economic or fiscal position of State

19. Payments from ICN Fund to Exchequer where deterioration in economic or fiscal position of State

20. Designated environmental projects

21. Payments from ICN Fund to Exchequer to support expenditure by State on designated environmental projects

22. Delay in certain payments from ICN Fund to Exchequer

23. Review of operation, effectiveness and impact of ICN Fund

PART 4

Deterioration in Economic or Fiscal Position of State

24. Definitions (Part 4)

25. Assessment by Fiscal Council as to whether there has been a deterioration in economic or fiscal position of State

26. Assessment by Minister as to whether there has been a deterioration in economic or fiscal position of State

PART 5

Management of Funds and Expenses

27. Definitions (Part 5)

28. Management of relevant Funds

29. Notice of payment into relevant Funds

30. Expenses of Agency in relation to relevant Funds

31. Investment in fossil fuel undertakings

32. Report and information to Minister relating to operation of relevant Funds

PART 6

Miscellaneous

33. Amendment of Act of 1990

34. Amendment of Act of 2014

35. Dissolution of National Surplus (Exceptional Contingencies) Reserve Fund

36. Repeal of Act of 2019

37. Amendments to miscellaneous enactments relating to taxation

SCHEDULE 1

Amendments of Acts

PART 1

Amendment of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997

PART 2

Amendment of Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999

SCHEDULE 2

Amendment of Return of Payments (Insurance Undertakings) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 641 of 2011)


Acts Referred to

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (No. 46)

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012 (No. 39)

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019 (No. 18)

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000 (No. 39)

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 (No. 23)

National Treasury Management Agency Act 1990 (No. 18)

Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 (No. 31)

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)

Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000 (No. 38)

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Number 16 of 2024


FUTURE IRELAND FUND AND INFRASTRUCTURE, CLIMATE AND NATURE FUND ACT 2024


An Act to provide for the establishment of a fund to be known as the Future Ireland Fund for the purpose of supporting, in a consistent and sustainable manner, State expenditure in any year from 2041; to provide for the establishment of a fund to be known as the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund for the purpose of supporting State expenditure, in 2026 or any year thereafter, in the event of a significant deterioration, or likely such deterioration, in the economic or fiscal position of the State and for the purpose of supporting State expenditure, between 2026 and 2030, on certain environmental projects; to provide for the control and management of those funds by the National Treasury Management Agency; to provide for the transfer of certain assets to those funds; to provide for the dissolution of the National Surplus (Exceptional Contingencies) Reserve Fund and the transfer of the assets of that fund to the Future Ireland Fund and the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund; for those and other purposes to amend the National Treasury Management Agency Act 1990 , the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 and certain other enactments and to repeal the National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019 ; and to provide for related matters.

[18th June, 2024]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: