Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

To follow up on that and to connect with the comments made by Deputies Penrose and English on regulation, anyone who has read this very complex Bill, as the Minister of State has described it, will see it will have a significant regulatory impact on employers, yet the process being used for regulatory impact analyses decided that after screening, this Bill did not require a full regulatory impact analysis. That shows how uncommitted the Minister of State is to tackling red tape and regulation. The Minister of State would take this massive Bill which is flawed and complex, as he has admitted, and screen it for a regulatory impact analysis and say it had no regulatory cost and, therefore, did not need a full regulatory impact analysis. How can he stand over that? Will he give a guarantee there will be a full regulatory impact analysis with numbers in it?

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