Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The situation that currently arises is that a company wishes to supply a service to the public, which the public deserves to receive, but finds it cannot do so because a regulated entity simply uses a large quantity of its cash reserves to frustrate the process in the courts by means of endless appeals, technical moves and so on. For that reason, I believe it is right to apply some kind of test in respect of the right to appeal. Senator Higgins loosely described an alternative approach to trying to solve the same problem. If she wants to draft an amendment on that and submit it for Report Stage, I will look at it.