Written answers
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Legislative Programme
9:00 pm
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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Question 229: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport 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. [33975/12]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The details requested by the Deputy are contained in the table below:
The details requested by the Deputy are contained in the table below:
| 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 and the number of Bills for which poverty impact analyses have been published |
| The Road Transport Bill 2011 | No such amendments were accepted. | An RIA for an earlier Bill, the Road Transport Bill 2010, was published in December 2010, and comments received. That earlier 2010 Bill was the basis for the 2011 Bill. The RIA for the 2011 Bill considered Socially Excluded and Vulnerable groups. The RIA for the 2011 Bill was issued to Government, but was not published beforehand due to pressure of time. |
| Road Traffic Bill 2011 | No amendments were accepted. | RIA not required, PIA not required |
| Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2011 | No amendments were accepted. The Legislative Proposals were discussed with the Joint Oireachtas Committee and the views expressed by the Committee were considered by the Minister in drafting the Bill. | RIA published, PIA not required |
| Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Bill 2012 | No amendments were accepted. The Legislative Proposals were discussed with the Joint Oireachtas Committee and the views expressed by the Committee were considered by the Minister in drafting the Bill. | RIA published, PIA not required |
| National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2011 | No amendments were made to the Bill as it progressed | Impact assessments were not considered necessary given the nature of the Bill. |
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