Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is no evidence that sort of leading by example has been a feature.

For my last question, I return to the issue of repair. It strikes me that the whole trend has been towards shorter life – replace rather than repair. That has been the commercial model. Changing this will be expensive for the sector. Does the regulatory impact assessment, RIA, on this repair show the requisite high cost this will be? I am told that the life of washing machines has shortened. The life of clothing certainly has shortened, which is partly consumer choice. The whole direction of the model has been to shorten the life of these goods. Do we know that this will bite in the sense that it has a regulatory impact of some substance? If it does not, one suspects it is a tick-box exercise where it will be said that we have our information sheet and our price for spare parts or whatever it is, but it does not actually happen on the ground.