Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am two issues away from finish. This next issue is one of human reality that, as policymakers, we cannot avoid. We have had a number of such issues. There is a considerable campaign in Cavan-Monaghan regarding the undergrounding versus overgrounding of the cables of the North-South interconnector. The not-in-my-back-yard, NIMBY, syndrome is evident all over Ireland. In the abstract, it is grand. Of course, people feel an unfairness and wonder why are all these structures, such as masts, lumped out in the sticks. Mr. Matthews and I can argue about the figure, but he will accept that he would need up to 6,000 masts all over Ireland to achieve his objectives.