Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

North-South Interconnector: EirGrid

11:30 am

Mr. John Fitzgerald:

A number of studies have been carried out and we keep abreast of developments. This is a subjective matter and it differs from one area to another and from one person to another. What we have put in place as part of our commitments, which we announced in January 2014, is to address some of the visual amenity issues, a community gain fund for the regions that are hosting the infrastructure but also a proximity ex gratiapayment for the residents in the areas. Studies show that the impacts on tourism are not very significant. We are working with our tourism bodies here to look at that across the whole Grid25 and we will see what comes out of that. We are watching, but it is a very subjective area. We will be addressing it.

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