Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses may have answered this already, but are there precedents in non-EEA European countries? This is a very important part of the role of this committee. We have been asked to come up with the solutions and it is very easy to come up with solutions when one can point to a precedent. Is there anything in Cyprus or Greece to which we can point where there are networks going across non-EEA countries? Is there funding for that which would assist us in making the case for the Celtic interconnector or Shannon LNG or any of the other infrastructural projects? While we have spent a lot of time listening to groups about what is required, the real nuts and bolts of this is not that we need an interconnector, it is that we need an interconnector, here is the case for it and here is the precedent for it. Do the witnesses have examples of the kind of precedents we could utilise?