This Order names certain plant species as noxious weeds for the whole State, starts on 14 May 2025, and revokes four earlier noxious-weed orders.
S.I. No. 191/2025 - Noxious Weed Order 2025 Download PDF Ãoslódáil PDF Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in “Iris Oifigiúil” of 16 th May, 2025. WHEREAS I am satisfied that the plants of the species and varieties mentioned in Article 2 of the following Order are noxious weeds; NOW, I, Martin Heydon, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Noxious Weeds Act 1936 (No. 38 of 1936) (as adapted by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 ( S.I. No. 455 of 2011 )), order as follows: 1. This Order may be cited as the Noxious Weeds Order 2025 and comes into operation on 14 May 2025. 2. Blackgrass ( Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.), Broad-Leaved Dock ( Rumex obtusifolius L.), Common Ragwort ( Jacobaea vulgaris Gaertn.), Creeping Thistle ( Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.), Curled Dock ( Rumex crispus L.), Spear Thistle ( Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten.), Spring Wild Oat ( Avena fatua ) and Winter Wild Oat ( Avena sterilis L.) are declared to be noxious weeds. 3. The area specified for this Order is the whole of the State. 4. The following are revoked: (a) the Noxious Weeds (Thistle, Ragwort and Dock) Order 1937 ( S.I. No.103 of 1937 (b) the Noxious Weeds (Common Barberry) Order 1958. S.I. No. 120 of 1958 (c) the Noxious Weeds (Male Wild Hop Plant) Order 1965 ( S.I. No.189 of 1965 ), and (d) the Noxious Weeds (Wild Oat) Order 1973 ( S.I. No. 194 of 1973 ). GIVEN under my Official Seal, 8 May, 2025. MARTIN HEYDON, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. EXPLANATORY NOTE This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation. The Order declares that the plants mentioned in Article 2 are noxious weeds.