Legislative Reviews

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Questions (138)

Carol Nolan

Question:

138. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will list all reviews of Acts carried out by his Department in line with the provisions of the Act in question from 2000 to date; if a summary will be provided of any substantive amendments of the Act in question that occurred on foot of each review and the amending legislation, if any, in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21182/23]

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Written answers

Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications

The information requested in the Question is being compiled by my Department and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51:

As my Department has been reconfigured on several occasions since 2000, the information sought by you is not readily available and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time to compile. The information requested covering the period since the last major reconfiguration of my Department in 2016 is set out below in Annex 1.

Annex 1: Legislative Reviews Carried Out

Legislation	Year	Reviews as per provision of that Act	Amendments made as a result of review	Title of amending legislation
The Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Act	2017	Section 1 of the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Act 2017 repealed Section 30 of the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011. Section 2 of the 2017 Act amended Section 10 of the Communications Regulation Act 2002 which provided for ComReg to undertake a review of any consequences of the repeal in Section 1 and report to the Minister. ComReg undertook this review and laid the report before the Oireachtas on 31 March 2020 https://opac.oireachtas.ie/AWData/Library3/Documents%20Laid/pdf/CCAEdoclaid310320_310320_122010.pdf	Nil	Not Applicable
Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act	2022	The Act provides for reviews to be carried out at different stages after enactment but no reviews have been carried out date.	Nil	Not Applicable