(Temporary) Stasis for Irish Defamation and Privacy Bills?

Cearta.ie has an interesting note on one ramification of the calling of the Parliamentary election in the Republic of Ireland. This is the fact that the Defamation and Privacy Bills will now fall, unless rejuvenated by the incoming Parliament. A corollary point made concerns the impact that this development will have on the emergence of the self-regulatory Press Council and Ombudsman that were to be established in conjunction with the new law.