Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent)
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159. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of Bills published by his Department since he was appointed Minister; the number and title of those Bills that included a regulatory impact assessment in advance of publication; the regulatory impact assessments published; the total number of promised Bills for publication; if he will list the Bills that will include a regulatory impact assessment; the regulatory impact assessments that will be published before publication of the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55131/13]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department has published a total of 13 Bills since I was appointed Minister in March 2011.

11 of these Bills had a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) completed in advance of the publication of the Bill concerned and these are listed below:

Patents (Amendment) Bill 2011

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011

Credit Guarantee Bill 2012

Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012

Companies Bill 2012

European Union (Accession of the Republic of Croatia) (Access to the Labour Market) Bill 2013

Friendly Societies and Industrial and Provident Societies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013

County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013

All of the above RIA’s have been published with the exception of the RIA in relation to the European Union (Accession of the Republic of Croatia) (Access to the Labour Market) Bill 2013. This RIA was considered by Government and a summary of the RIA was included in a press statement issued by my Department on 24^th May 2013 and this is available on my Department’s website.

The following five Bills are included in my Department’s A list for publication in the current Dáil session:

Workplace Relations Bill

Employment Permits Bill

Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill

Consumer and Competition Bill

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been undertaken and published in relation to the Workplace Relations Bill and the Employment Permits Bill. A Regulatory Impact Assessment is being undertaken in relation to the Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill and it is expected that the RIA will be published before publication of this Bill. A Regulatory Impact Assessment is also being undertaken in relation to the Consumer and Competition Bill and it is intended to publish the RIA at the same time as the Bill.

As the Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013 does not introduce any new regulation and does not impact existing regulations, it is not considered necessary to undertake a RIA on this Bill.