Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid

12:10 pm

Mr. Fintan Slye:

The factor of three I used today comes from the independent expert commission report commissioned by the Government to examine the case for and cost of undergrounding the North-South interconnector. The commission concluded that it would be three times more expensive than the overground option. That is the genesis and origin of the factor of three to which I referred today. Apologies if I confused in any way the analysis of different options. The Deputy makes a good point about the analysis of underground versus overhead. Perhaps I need to-----

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