Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This applies to any general application that goes directly to the commission and that has a statutory timeline, which is set out. If they are not meeting that statutory timeline of four weeks, then they are given six weeks. Why is there a four-week and a six-week period, and then a fine after the six-week period? Is it just to give them an initial bit of latitude? Obviously, the statutory timelines are important.