Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)

I do not propose to accept the amendment. All regulations made under the Social Welfare Acts are published on the website of the Department of Social and Family Affairs and are also available on the Irish Statute Book website. Also, all regulations are transmitted to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social and Family Affairs. Following the introduction in early 2007 of a new electronic statutory instrument system, all new regulations made are now available on these websites within a short time of being made. In accordance with the requirements under section 3 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1947, as amended, the making of all statutory instruments has been published in Iris Oifigiúil .