{"id":312565,"date":"2025-12-12T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312565\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:11:07","slug":"tanaiste-to-support-economic-impact-assessment-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312565\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste to support economic impact assessment proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00e1naiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris will use his first meeting of European finance ministers to support a Danish proposal to impose an economic impact assessment on all forthcoming European Commission proposals.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after new figures show that 55% of current legislative proposals from the commission were put forward without any accompanying impact assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was discussed in detail in a bi-lateral meeting last night between Mr Harris and his Danish counterpart Stephanie Lose, during which Mr Harris said he intends to make the issue a major priority when Ireland assumes the EU presidency next July.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Brussels this afternoon, Mr Harris said it has been made clear to the European Commission that all regulations that come forward need to have an economic impact assessment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is absolutely essential that we have full understanding of the costs of regulations,&#8221; said the T\u00e1naiste. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Personally, I think the pace of regulations need to slow down,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Harris said the focus in Ireland and across Europe should be on &#8220;delivery, delivery, delivery&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No new regulation should stand in the way of that,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris will use his first meeting of European finance ministers to support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-312565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}