Responsibility for Better Regulation has been divided into six areas and allocated to three Departments.
Responsibility for Better Regulation in Ireland has been divided up as follows:
| 1. Reducing administrative burden | Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment |
| 2. Competition issues | Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment |
| 3. Regulatory Impact Assessment | Department of Public Expenditure and Reform |
| 4. Effectiveness of regulators | Department of the Taoiseach |
| 5. Representing Ireland at EU/OECD/International fora | Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment |
| 6. Transparency/quality of legislation | Department of the Taoiseach (Cabinet Secretariat), Attorney General’s Office |