Brendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

On amendment No. 91 in the name of the Minister, section (3)(a) states: "The airport authority, or a person upon whom there is a noise impact ... may ... request the competent authority to review the effectiveness of the noise mitigation measures".

However, in section 3(b), the amendment provides that the competent authority "may, at its discretion, comply" with such a request. Therefore, the competent authority may also choose to ignore such a request. One would then wonder what is the purpose of the amendment at all. I am seriously concerned about amendment No. 91 on that basis.

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