Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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Question 169: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government 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. [33973/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The following is the position in relation legislation initiated by me since coming to office.

1. Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2011 which has completed all stages in both Houses but has not yet been signed into law by the President

2. Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011, enacted in 2012

3. Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011– enacted

4. Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011 - enacted

5. Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011

6. Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012 - enacted

7. Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2012 - enacted

8. Electoral (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2012 was presented in Dáil Éireann on 4 July 2012 but has not yet been debated in the House.

The acceptance, or otherwise, of any amendments during the passage of a Bill in either House, whether they are proposed by Government or by the Opposition, is a matter for decision by the House, rather than by myself.

Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIA) have been published on my Department's web site in relation to the Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2011, the Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011, and the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011.

Within my Department, consideration of the potential impacts on poverty in the context of any new policy approach is normally given at an early stage in the policy development process, and practical approaches to address and minimise any such potential impacts are then normally taken in the draft legislation itself or, where appropriate, in the scheme it establishes.