Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 22 January 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment

1:00 pm

Mr. Mark Griffin:

EirGrid does good work, as I see it, around sponsoring - I think it was - the under-20 GAA hurling over the last number of years. On the advertising bit, I need to get it clear in my head. EirGrid does a great deal of community outreach which one would imagine involves the need for extensive investment in local advertising in the areas where they are doing work or expecting to do work. It has done a good deal of outreach on some big projects it is doing to keep the communities adequately briefed on what is happening and likely to happen in the area.

Whether that is encompassed within the €8.1 million, I do not know. If it is, I would see that as being hugely important in terms of that community engagement piece, particularly on projects some of which, as both of us know, can be quite difficult and controversial in local communities. That bit needs to be appropriately managed by EirGrid as the-----

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