Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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Question 181: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures operating in his Department for identifying when a Bill requires a poverty impact and or regulatory impact analysis and when it is exempt; the procedures for conducting and publishing that analysis, when applicable; and if he will identify, by rank or position, the officials responsible for managing and making decisions on this process. [33981/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Justice and Equality undertakes Regulatory Impact Analyses and Poverty Impact Assessments in accordance with the latest relevant guidelines provided by the Department of the Taoiseach and the Social Inclusion Division of the Department of Social Protection respectively. The Regulatory Impact Assessment procedure incorporates the Poverty Impact Assessment through the inclusion of a specific requirement to examine the impacts of regulatory proposals on socially excluded and vulnerable groups. Officials at the grade of Principal Officer in my Department have responsibility for managing and making decisions in respect of this process.