Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport 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. [57767/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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My Department has carried out five regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) in the past twelve months.

In the area of Maritime Safety, RIAs were carried out on the transposition of  Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on Reporting Formalities for Ships Arriving in and/or Departing from Ports of Member States and also on the proposed new regime for the registration of ships in Ireland.

Two RIAs were carried out in the area of Road Safety. The first was  to inform the development of the Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Act 2012 and the second was submitted to Government in December 2012 to accompany a General Scheme of the next Road Traffic Bill, which is currently being drafted by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. An RIA was also carried out for the Taxi Regulation Bill, 2012.