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Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Legislative Programme

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Photo of Imelda MunsterImelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform 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. [1570/18]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.

Legislation TitleYearDurationNo. staff requiredCostsProcess Carried out by Dept or Outsourced
Freedom of Information Act 20142 years3See next columnCarried out primarily by the Department but also see below regarding Statute Law Revision Programme
In addition to the legislation listed above, the Statute Law Revision Programme, while not explicitly consolidating or amalgamating legislation, repealed over 60,000 pieces of obsolete legislation and has significantly simplified the Irish Statute Book. This project included the use of external legal expertise at a cost of €499,716.  This expertise was also used in the work on the Government’s legislative reform programme over 2013-2015.

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