Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Somebody who really has a challenge should have to meet very significant initial thresholds or else the process should stop immediately. The idea that one can consider appealing to the Court of Appeal and then the Supreme Court and then engage the activities of those courts in the process is a real problem. We should speed up the process and make it more certain. This is not the first time it has happened and it will not be the last unless we do something. That is a matter for the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, whose Department is in charge of referendums and the like.It is not the first time it has happened and it will not be the last, unless we do something. It is a matter for the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Murphy, whose Department is in charge of referenda and so on.