Mr. P?draig ? Muirigh:

There may well be. The court states you must take the case within four months of the passing of the law or within four months of the decision of the highest court within that jurisdiction. It is perhaps open to the Irish Government to say the four months could extend to it as well regarding the Supreme Court. Regardless of any arguments around that, there is nothing to prevent it taking this case now. The benefit is that because it is not party to that litigation, it is not required to await the outcome. My argument to the Government is that it should take the case within this shorter window, in the first four months after the passing of the Act. It is not part of the litigation nor is it involved and it has no rights of audience within that judicial review. It is quite outside it. The case should be taken by 18 January.