Ms Helena Fitzgerald:

It is really important for local authorities to understand that the local authority will not make the decision on what route is chosen. All we can do, as Save Our Heartland has been saying from the start, is present the best case to this process. The idea that in valuing one's landscape or what is in one's county one is disadvantaging one route is not really true. EirGrid will make its decision on the entire route but it is not being transparent about how it will make that decision.

EirGrid is not saying whether it is cost or environmental issues. EirGrid will not give us an idea of the weighting. It is not in the gift of the county council to choose the route and it has said it will not pinpoint a route for EirGrid.