Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 574: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department was required to take part in the interdepartmental group on administrative burden reduction; if his Department has yet listed information obligations that his Department's regulations impose on business; if so, the number of information obligations listed; if his Department has yet assessed which requirements are the most burdensome; if his Department has measured the actual cost to business of the most burdensome requirements and if so, the total cost. [40347/10]

Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the Government has set a 25% target for the reduction of the administrative burden of domestic legislation on business by 2012. The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation is coordinating the overall process to measure and reduce burdens on business across Government. I can advise the Deputy that a screening process was undertaken in my Department to establish whether any domestic legislation for which my Department is responsible gave rise to administrative burdens on business and to identify any information obligations on business. Following this process, no such information obligations were identified in my Department and accordingly since December 2008 my Department is no longer represented on the Inter Departmental Group on Administrative Burden Reduction.