{"id":428485,"date":"2026-05-02T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428485\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:49:13","slug":"companies-waiting-months-for-decisions-on-licences-from-new-maritime-quango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428485\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies waiting months for decisions on licences from new maritime quango"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Microsoft and Amazon among those affected\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Companies laying subsea cables waiting months for decisions. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b57a286f-d088-4d8a-a1fb-3c3f25a389c5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Companies laying subsea cables waiting months for decisions. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Windfarms and operators of sub-sea cables are waiting months, and in some cases over a year, to get decisions on maritime licence applications from a new agency the Government set up to streamline the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There have been representations to Energy Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien about the length of time the Maritime Area Regulatory Agency (Mara) has taken in some cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Amazon among those affected Companies laying subsea cables waiting months for decisions. Photo: Getty Images Windfarms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3468,72,25746,61,60,5243,1071],"class_list":["post-428485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-darragh-obrien","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-burns","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}