Written answers
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Department of Social Protection
Regulatory Impact Assessment Data
Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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251. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if all regulatory impact assessments for his legislative proposals are published on his Department's website; the web address for each such site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9427/17]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs) are undertaken by my Department in accordance with the relevant Department of the Taoiseach guidelines on significant legislative, policy and other changes.
A Regulatory Impact Analysis is not ordinarily undertaken on the package of tax, welfare and other measures announced in the annual Budget Day Statements. As most of the Social Welfare Bills provide for the implementation of various budgetary measures, RIAs are not considered necessary in relation to these measures. Social Welfare Bills also provide for a range of other miscellaneous and technical amendments to the social welfare code and these types of amendments are not considered amenable to the undertaking of a RIA.
Details of the RIAs undertaken by my Department are available on its website at.
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