Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 201: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of EU measures which have been transposed into primary or secondary legislation by his Department in the past 12 months; if he will list each measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34636/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has not had any EU measures which required transposition into primary or secondary legislation in the past 12 months.

While my Department has an overall coordinating role in EU matters, the core responsibility for transposing EU measures into Irish law rests with those Departments which oversee and maintain our national legislative and regulatory framework in the policy areas covered by individual EU measures.

Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 202: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if there are EU measures in his Department which require to be transposed into Irish primary or secondary legislation; if so if he will detail those measures; when they were drafted by the EU Commission; when he will transpose them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34651/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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While my Department has an overall coordinating role in EU matters, the core responsibility for transposing EU measures into Irish law rests with those Departments which oversee and maintain our national legislative and regulatory framework in the policy areas covered by individual EU measures. There are currently no Directives awaiting transposition in my Department.

My colleague, Mr. Dick Roche T.D., Minister of State for European Affairs, chairs an Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee on European Affairs, which keeps the transposition of EU measures under constant review.

In this regard, the EU Internal Market Scoreboard shows the record of each Member State in transposing Single Market measures into national law. In July of this year, Ireland achieved its best ever performance on the Scoreboard, reaching a target set by the European Heads of State and Government to further reduce the transposition deficit to 1% by 2009.