Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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Question 105: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with regard to all legislation initiated by him since coming into office: the number of Bills that have completed the legislative process; the number of occasions on which amendments proposed by members of the opposition have been accepted; the number of Bills for which regulatory impact analyses have been published; the number of Bills for which poverty impact analyses have been published; and when a Bill was exempt from the requirements to do poverty impact and regulatory impact analysis, if he will state same. [33978/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Regarding legislation initiated by me since coming into office five Bills have completed the legislative process. In the case of one Bill amendments proposed by members of the opposition were accepted. No opposition amendments were proposed to one Bill. Four of the Bills completed were exempt from the requirements to do Poverty Impact Assessments and Regulatory Impact Analyses and while in the case of one of the Bills a screening Regulatory Impact Analysis was carried out. No Regulatory Impact Analyses was published.

In the case of one other Bill, which has not yet completed the legislative process, a Regulatory Impact Analysis has been completed and was published on my Department's website on 27 September 2011.

I also accepted one Private Members Bill tabled by an opposition deputy.