Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 58:

In page 15, to delete lines 23 and 24 and substitute the following: “(b) (i) The competent authority shall be a party to the appeal.

(ii) The airport authority may, at its discretion, be a party to the appeal notwithstanding that it is not the appellant.”.

These amendments make it clear that the noise regulator is always party to an appeal made against a regulatory decision. For consistency, it is simply replicating similar decisions in the Planning and Development Act whereby the planning authority is always party to an appeal against a planning decision.