Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 134:

In page 59, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(4) At any time on or after the court receives a section 62 application and a relevant authority is not already a party to the proceedings, the court may, at any stage of the proceedings, of its own motion or on the application of any party to the proceedings, direct that all necessary papers in the matter be sent to the relevant authority.

(5) Where, at any time on or after the court receives a section 62 application, a relevant authority requests to be made a party to the proceedings, the court shall order that the relevant authority be added as a party, and, whether or not the relevant authority so requests, the relevant authority may argue before the court any question in relation to the application which the court considers necessary to have fully argued and take such other steps in relation thereto as the relevant authority thinks necessary or expedient.

(6) The court may direct that notice of a section 62 application shall be given to such other persons as the court thinks fit and where notice is so given to any person the court may, either of its own motion or on the application of that person or any party to the proceedings, order that that person shall be added as a party to those proceedings.

(7) In this section, “relevant authority” means—

(a) the Attorney General, or

(b) the AHRRA.”.