It will continue until I've worked through all the S.I.s for 2008.Originally Posted by ibis
If your friends in Generation Yah had published the data that was purportedly collected by their 'team of researchers' I wouldn't have to spend time on it myself. How very strange it is they didn't do that ...
Here I am again with another 22 S.I.s from 2008 that were EU-inspired, although that isn't evident from their titles in most cases.
S.I. No. 164/2008 - Recognition of the Professional Qualifications of Nurses and Midwives (Directive 2005/36/Ec) Regulations, 2008
S.I. No. 166/2008 - Recognition of Professional Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Directive 2005/36/Ec) Regulations, 2008
S.I. No. 215/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(2)) (Usama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaida Network and the Taliban) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 3) 2008
S.I. No. 216/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(6)) (Usama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaida Network and the Taliban) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 3) 2008
S.I. No. 236/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(2)) (Counter Terrorism) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 2) 2008
S.I. No. 237/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(6)) (Counter Terrorism) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 2) 2008
S.I. No. 238/2008 - Value-Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2008
S.I. No. 263/2008 - Recognition of the Professional Qualifications of Dentists (Directive 2005/36/Ec) Regulations, 2008
S.I. No. 266/2008 - Financial Transfers (Iran) (Prohibition) Order (No. 2) 2008
S.I. No. 268/2008 - Waste Management (Batteries and Accumulators) Regulations 2008
S.I. No. 273/2008 - Chemicals Act 2008 (Commencement) Order 2008
S.I. No. 304/2008 - Financial Transfers (Liberia) (Prohibition) Order 2008
S.I. No. 312/2008 - Road Traffic (Driving Mirrors Additional Requirements for Heavy Goods Vehicles) Regulations 2008
S.I. No. 313/2008 - Statistics (Survey of Industrial Commodities Production) Order 2008
S.I. No. 314/2008 - Statistics (Labour Costs Surveys) Order 2008
S.I. No. 338/2008 - Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008 (Commencement) Order 2008
S.I. No. 375/2008 - Waste Management (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
S.I. No. 377/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(6)) (Counter Terrorism) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 3) 2008
S.I. No. 378/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(2)) (Counter Terrorism) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 3) 2008
S.I. No. 379/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(6)) (Usama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaida Network and the Taliban) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 4) 2008
S.I. No. 380/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(2)) (Usama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaida Network and the Taliban) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 4) 2008
S.I. No. 400/2008 - National Beef Assurance Scheme Act 2000 (Animal Movement) Regulations 2008
Adjusting my previous calculations:
A. EU regulations: 718
B. Irish acts/SI's of EU origin: 180
C. Irish acts/SI's of national origin: (632 - 180) = 452
This gives as a minimum estimate for Brussels-inspired legislation during 2008:
(A + B)(100)/(A + B + C) = [COLOR="Red"]66.5%[/COLOR]
I think 70% may be attainable ...
What is the issue here. So legislation is enacted in Brussels by elected representatives. The Oireachtas then enacts legislation in response to the Brussels legislation - again by elected representatives.
Is this a "bad thing"?
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies
Ahem:
...and will continue until you have a high enough number to satisfy you.
Never let the best be the enemy of the good.
Gy's *cough* the european commissions figure of 43% looks in tatters now.
Thanks Thoreau.
(The occasional griping here is quite revealing in its own way)
'Personally, I find the notion of changing our constitution in exchange for a loan absolutely disgusting'. - Tin Foil Hat
Bumping this for Lefournier
'Personally, I find the notion of changing our constitution in exchange for a loan absolutely disgusting'. - Tin Foil Hat
Nobody's perfect.
'Personally, I find the notion of changing our constitution in exchange for a loan absolutely disgusting'. - Tin Foil Hat
Even if the EU only produced 1% of laws it will still in the end replace all national law because of its supremacy over national law and the obligation on national parliaments not to legislate again in any way that conflicts with EU law.
So 1% or 40% or 70% just decides the speed at which the law-making power of national parliaments to reduced to impotence and not that it happen.
I've now completed my quick trawl through the S.I.s from 2008 and found 13 more that were EU-inspired:
S.I. No. 418/2008 - Sea-Fisheries (Control on Fishing for Hake) Regulations 2008
S.I. No. 455/2008 - Financial Transfers (Zimbabwe) (Prohibition) Order 2008
S.I. No. 471/2008 - Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
S.I. No. 474/2008 - Financial Transfers (Liberia) (Prohibition)Order (No. 2) 2008
S.I. No. 476/2008 - Financial Transfers (Democratic Republic of Congo) (Prohibition) Order 2008
S.I. No. 493/2008 - Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (Education and Training) Rules 2008
S.I. No. 524/2008 - Waste Management (Certification of Historic Unlicenced Waste Disposal and Recovery Activity) Regulations 2008
S.I. No. 549/2008 - Financial Transfers (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Icty)) (Prohibition) Order 2008
S.I. No. 551/2008 - Rules of the Superior Courts (European Orders for Payment) 2008
S.I. No. 556/2008 - Waste Management (Batteries and Accumulators) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
S.I. No. 567/2008 - Merchandise Marks Act 1970 (Prepacked Goods) (Marking and Quantities) (Revocation) Order 2008
S.I. No. 583/2008 - District Court (European Small Claims) Rules 2008
S.I. No. 599/2008 - Slaughter of Animals Act 1935 (Approved Instruments) Order 2008
This research can't claim to be exhaustive because I didn't look at all the S.I.s - only at those where I could envisage a possible EU involvement from their titles - so it's quite possible that there may be a few EU-inspired regulations that I missed. Also, I only counted measures that were clearly implementing Brussels-inspired legislation; I didn't count any that merely made a passing mention of some EU directive or regulation.
Adjusting my previous calculations:
A. EU regulations: 718
B. Irish acts/SI's of EU origin: 193
C. Irish acts/SI's of national origin: (632 - 193) = 439
This gives the following minimum calculation for Brussels-inspired legislation during 2008:
(A + B)(100)/(A + B + C) = [COLOR="Red"]67.5%[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Blue"]Erratum
I originally overlooked two more SIs that were of EU origin:
S.I. No. 457/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(6)) (Usama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaida Network and the Taliban) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 5) 2008
S.I. No. 458/2008 - Criminal Justice (Terrorist offences) Act 2005 (Section 42(2)) (Usama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaida Network and the Taliban) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations (No. 5) 2008
These will be included in the final calculations.[/COLOR]
Last edited by Thoreau; 26th July 2009 at 02:18 PM.
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