Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The marine area regulatory authority will be able to ask the High Court to stay proceedings regarding an application for a judicial review about a decision to grant a maritime area consent.

Why should MARA be allowed to ask the court to set aside an application for a judicial review around a maritime area consent until after it has made its decision? I ask the Minister of State to explain in plain language why that should be the case. The other amendment relates to extending the eight weeks out to 12 weeks in light of the complexity of the process.