Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 415: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of staff in terms of whole time equivalents who have been assigned by him to give effect to the commitment to assess, measure and then reduce by 25% administrative burdens imposed by his Department's regulations to business; the financial resources that have been spent on such work to date in 2008; the expected expenditure for the remainder of 2008; the budget for 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45939/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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My Department is fully engaged in the Better Regulation agenda to contribute to the initiative of making it easier to do business in the State and with the State, including the reduction by 25% of the administrative burden on business from State regulation.

As part of the Better Regulation agenda, administrative burden reduction practice is part of the everyday normal work of staff in all Divisions of the Department.

Staff resources are not exclusively deployed to deal with this issue due to the fact that it is part of their ongoing workload. It is not possible, therefore, to disaggregate the costs of servicing the needs of reducing the administrative burden on business due to regulation from overall administration costs.