Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

I appreciate the sincerity of the Minister of State in this matter given his background in business. However, I do not believe he answered either of my questions which I will ask again. Would he agree it would be appropriate to have an interim target of, for example, 10% by the end of next year so we can review the progress he is making on an annual basis rather than waiting until the end of 2012 to see if he has achieved anything? The Minister of State said there is a calculation. I do not believe there is. I would be very interested to find out as soon as he can inform us what the monetary calculated cost of the administrative burden of regulation to business is and the model used to assess that. I doubt that is being done, but if it is I would like to hear the figure or even a ballpark figure.

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