Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months and the list of regulatory impact assessments carried out within his Department in the past twelve months. [57756/12]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) is a tool used to assess the likely effects of a proposed new regulation or legislative change.

I wish to advise the Deputy that given the different stages legislative proposals in the Department are at, that in the past twelve months there have been no RIAs undertaken by my Department.

More generally, I would point out that my Department engages in an ongoing basis on evaluation of various policy proposals.