Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will pick up on the North-South interconnector project. Can I get an update on the project from EirGrid's perspective? Community liaison officers are meeting with landowners. What are the next steps and timeline? I have a particular question about compliance with planning conditions. For example, there was a number of planning conditions related to the development prior to commencement, such as a construction and environmental management plan and a traffic management plan in consultation with the Department and Inland Fisheries. Have they been drawn up? Other planning conditions were engagement with the National Parks and Wildlife Service for pre-construction verification surveys and assessments related to the whooper swan? Has that been done? It came up at previous hearings. Another planning condition was plans for the storage of construction materials. Those are some of the conditions. Have they been submitted or approved and is EirGrid ready to go in respect of those? More widely, what are EirGrid's expectations for the months ahead? Will the witnesses touch on whether there is a threshold or plan for a percentage of community acceptance and agreement? EirGrid will go with specific proposals. Is there a threshold that will give EirGrid the green light and what will it do if there is not sufficient landowner acceptance from EirGrid's perspective?