Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 296: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which has statutory effect under the European Communities Act 1972 or other legislation specifically relating to same; if he will provide a list of such statutory instruments having statutory effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13165/08]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the European Communities Act 1972 provides that from the 1st day of January, 1973, the treaties governing the European Communities and the existing and future acts adopted by the institutions of those Communities shall be binding on the State and shall be part of the domestic law thereof under the conditions laid down in those treaties.

As the Deputy will also be aware, my Department was established on the 6th June 2002 and since that date has not introduced any statutory instruments which would have statutory effect under the European Communities Act 1972 or other legislation specifically relating to same.