Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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109. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of Bills published by his Department since March 2011 and the number of regulatory impact assessments published by his Department since March 2011. [45625/13]

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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One Bill was produced by my Department since March 2011.

The Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013, was published in June 2013, further to a commitment in the Programme for Government. A regulatory impact analysis (RIA) is normally required for all primary legislation but there are certain exceptions to this rule which are set out in the relevant guidelines. As the Bill concerned involved amending the Constitution for the purpose of abolishing the Seanad rather than significantly impacting on the regulatory environment, an RIA was not completed in keeping with precedents for Bills of this nature.