Ann Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am not saying 50 m is the correct distance. I was just citing that EirGrid said the minimum safe distance is 50 m. If we are going to monitor the Clare to Dublin 400 kV line, I agree with Deputy Mulherin.

We have written to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to ask him if the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland could be called in to monitor the EMF fields around that line. As the public has lost confidence in EirGrid and as EirGrid is not monitoring that, I do not think it will add up. Deputy Coffey also put forward that suggestion about the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, and I think this committee should actively take up that suggestion.