Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Amendments Nos. 703 and 744 relate to sections 120 and 139 regarding the procedural powers of the commission in respect of direct applications made to it and material alteration requests. Currently there is an ambiguity in the text as it provides that the commission may within such a period as may be prescribed request further submissions on an application or material alteration request within such periods as it may specify. The reference to periods being prescribed and periods being specified by the commission could lead to confusion. It is more appropriate that such periods for responding to requests for further submissions are prescribed in regulation and therefore these two amendments propose substituting "it may specify" for "may be prescribed" in these sections.