Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Over the years, and in the past year or two, I have always found that the public servants who work on behalf of the public serve it to the best of their ability and to the highest standard. I have found that to be the case in the past two years in working with the regulator, the transmission system operator and the ESB. Those three organisations serve the public interest. They are public bodies. Yes, there are tensions and differences because people are rightly passionate about this, as it is important for our country that we get this right. We will have different views, arguments and heated debate but, as soon as any problems arose, I am absolutely confident that the regulator brought them to my attention, as did EirGrid. It is important that the public has an understanding that public servants are exactly that; they are serving the public to the best of their ability.