Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projects undertaken to consolidate or amalgamate existing legislation, including the cost, the duration, the number of staff required and if this process was carried out by his Department or outsourced in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [1569/18]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Justice and Equality is responsible for the preparation each year of a significant number of Bills dealing with civil and criminal law. Many of these Bills seek to reform or update the law in specific areas, and necessarily involve an element of consolidation or amalgamation. It would not be practical to quantify the time and resources dedicated to those elements of such Bills. 

However, from 2007 to 2011, the Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee was tasked with overseeing the codification of criminal law project, with a staff of 13 to 20 over the course of the project, at a cost of €1,008,909.74.