Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is a standard provision. It provides for the ability of a recipient of an enforcement notice received under section 22 to apply to the High Court to have the direction of the competent authority cancelled.

Given the noise regulator has the power under section 22 to make an application to the High Court for an order requiring a person to comply with an enforcement notice, it is only fair and balanced that the recipient of such a notice be afforded the same opportunity. It is really so all parties are treated equally.