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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-15-109814
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20150330
FILED AS OF DATE:		20150330
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20150327

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			James Hardie Industries plc
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001159152
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CONCRETE PRODUCTS, EXCEPT BLOCK & BRICK [3272]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0331

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-15240
		FILM NUMBER:		15732228

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2ND FLOOR EUROPA HOUSE
		STREET 2:		HARCOURT CENTRE HARCOURT STREET
		CITY:			DUBLIN
		STATE:			L2
		ZIP:			2
		BUSINESS PHONE:		353 1 4116924

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2ND FLOOR EUROPA HOUSE
		STREET 2:		HARCOURT CENTRE HARCOURT STREET
		CITY:			DUBLIN
		STATE:			L2
		ZIP:			2

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES SE
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20100219

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES N.V.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20090508

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	HARDIE JAMES INDUSTRIES NV
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20010914
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">Washington,
D.C. 20549 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:14pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM 6-K </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center"><B>Report of Foreign
Private Issuer Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center"><B>under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">For the Month of March 2015 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">1-15240 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">(Commission File Number) </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center"><B>JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES
plc </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">(Translation of registrant&#146;s name into English) </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">Europa House, Second Floor </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">Harcourt Centre </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">(Address of
principal executive offices) </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:48pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or
Form&nbsp;40-F. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">Form 20-F..X&#133;. Form 40-F&#133;&#133;&#133; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): Not Applicable </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center">Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7): Not Applicable </P>

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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:9pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="justify">This Form 6-K contains forward-looking statements. James Hardie Industries plc (the &#147;company&#148;) may from time to time make forward-looking
statements in its periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, on Forms 20-F and 6-K, in its annual reports to shareholders, in offering circulars, invitation memoranda and prospectuses, in media releases and
other written materials and in oral statements made by the company&#146;s officers, directors or employees to analysts, institutional investors, existing and potential lenders, representatives of the media and others. Statements that are not
historical facts are forward-looking statements and such forward-looking statements are statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:9pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="justify">Examples of forward-looking statements include: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">statements regarding the company&#146;s plans, objectives or goals, including those relating to strategies, initiatives, competition, acquisitions,
dispositions and/or its products; </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">expectations concerning the costs associated with the suspension or closure of operations at any of the company&#146;s plants and future plans with respect to
any such plants; </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">expectations concerning the costs associated with the significant capital expenditure projects at any of the company&#146;s plants and future plans with
respect to any such projects; </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">expectations regarding the extension or renewal of the company&#146;s credit facilities including changes to terms, covenants or ratios;
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">statements concerning the company&#146;s corporate and tax domiciles and structures and potential changes to them, including potential tax charges;
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">expectations about the timing and amount of contributions to Asbestos Injuries Compensation Fund (AICF), a special purpose fund for the compensation of proven
Australian asbestos-related personal injury and death claims; </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">expectations concerning indemnification obligations; </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">expectations concerning the adequacy of the company&#146;s warranty provisions and estimates for future warranty-related costs; </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">statements regarding the company&#146;s ability to manage legal and regulatory matters (including but not limited to product liability, environmental,
intellectual property and competition law matters) and to resolve any such pending legal and regulatory matters within current estimates and in anticipation of certain third-party recoveries; and </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt">statements about economic conditions, such as changes in the US economic or housing recovery or changes in the market conditions in the Asia Pacific region,
the levels of new home construction and home renovations, unemployment levels, changes in consumer income, changes or stability in housing values, the availability of mortgages and other financing, mortgage and other interest rates, housing
affordability and supply, the levels of foreclosures and home resales, currency exchange rates, and builder and consumer confidence. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:9pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="justify">Words such as &#147;believe,&#148; &#147;anticipate,&#148; &#147;plan,&#148; &#147;expect,&#148; &#147;intend,&#148; &#147;target,&#148;
&#147;estimate,&#148; &#147;project,&#148; &#147;predict,&#148; &#147;forecast,&#148; &#147;guideline,&#148; &#147;aim,&#148; &#147;will,&#148; &#147;should,&#148; &#147;likely,&#148; &#147;continue,&#148; &#147;may,&#148; &#147;objective,&#148;
&#147;outlook&#148; and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements and
all such forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the following cautionary statements. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:9pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="justify">Forward-looking statements
are based on the company&#146;s current expectations, estimates and assumptions and because forward-looking statements address future results, events and conditions, they, by their very nature, involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which
are unforeseeable and beyond the company&#146;s control. Such known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause actual results, performance or other achievements to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or
achievements expressed, projected or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors, some of which are discussed under &#147;Risk Factors&#148; in Section&nbsp;3 of the Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
26&nbsp;June 2014, include, but are not limited to: all matters relating to or arising out of the prior manufacture of products that contained asbestos by current and former company subsidiaries; required contributions to AICF, any shortfall in AICF
and the effect of currency exchange rate movements on the amount recorded in the company&#146;s financial statements as an asbestos liability; governmental loan facility to AICF; compliance with and changes in tax laws and treatments; competition
and product pricing in the markets in which the company operates; the consequences of product failures or defects; exposure to environmental, asbestos, putative consumer class action or other legal proceedings; general economic and market
conditions; the supply and cost of raw materials; possible increases in competition and the potential that competitors could copy the company&#146;s products; reliance on a small number of customers; a customer&#146;s inability to pay; compliance
with and changes in environmental and health and safety laws; risks of conducting business internationally; compliance with and changes in laws and regulations; the effect of the transfer of the company&#146;s corporate domicile from the Netherlands
to Ireland, including changes in corporate governance and any potential tax benefits related thereto; currency exchange risks; dependence on customer preference and the concentration of the company&#146;s customer base on large format retail
customers, distributors and dealers; dependence on residential and commercial construction markets; the effect of adverse changes in climate or weather patterns; possible inability to renew credit facilities on terms favorable to the company, or at
all; acquisition or sale of businesses and </P>
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business segments; changes in the company&#146;s key management personnel; inherent limitations on internal controls; use of accounting estimates; and all other risks identified in the
company&#146;s reports filed with Australian, Irish and US securities agencies and exchanges (as appropriate). The company cautions you that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive and that other risks and uncertainties may cause actual
results to differ materially from those referenced in the company&#146;s forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and are statements of the company&#146;s current expectations concerning future
results, events and conditions. The company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information except as required by law. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:16pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="center"><B>Initial Director&#146;s Interest Notice </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:9pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="justify"><I>Information or documents not available now must be given to ASX as soon as available. Information and documents given to ASX become
ASX&#146;s property and may be made public. </I></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:7pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="justify">Introduced 30/9/2001. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="justify">Andrea GISLE JOOSEN</P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt" align="left">&nbsp;</P></TD></TR>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="justify"><B>Part 1 - Director&#146;s relevant interests in securities of which the director is the registered holder </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="justify"><I>In the case of a trust, this includes interests in the trust made available by the responsible entity of the trust </I></P>
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director&#148; should be disclosed in this part. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:20pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="justify"><B>Initial Director&#146;s Interest Notice </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:8pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="line-height:1.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:ARIAL" ALIGN="justify"><B>Part 2 &#150; Director&#146;s relevant
interests in securities of which the director is not the registered holder </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="justify"><I>In the case of a trust, this includes interests in the
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-TOP:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8pt"> <P ALIGN="justify" STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Not applicable</P></TD></TR>
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