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

It is a two-stage process, so four weeks is the first stage. Let us say an application is still live and has not been determined. The four weeks refers to the first period. If it is still not determined after four weeks, then the second period is six weeks and, therefore, between the two, there is a maximum of ten weeks. Where the commission fails to determine it within the first four weeks, there is a second six-week period and then that is it.