Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will not be accepting these amendments for reasons explained already on Committee Stage. As I set out on Committee Stage, this is a standard provision to allow a recipient of an enforcement notice to apply to the High Court to have that notice issued by the noise regulator cancelled. The fact is that the noise regulator can apply to the High Court for an order requiring a person to comply with an enforcement notice. Again I reiterate that it is only right and balanced that the recipient of such a notice is afforded the opportunity to question that enforcement notice. Simply put, it gives the right to the DAA, to which the Deputy referred, to have recourse to the courts if it considers that the noise regulator has not acted properly in issuing an enforcement notice against it. It gives the same right to any other person who has received an enforcement notice from the noise regulator.

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