Mr. Fintan Slye:

I will try to respond to some of the questions and will ask some of my colleagues to respond to others. The first issue raised by the chairman was about questions not being answered as part of the consultation process. Obviously, if this is the case, that is not something we want. We are committed to responding to people's concerns. We will look at that issue and see if there are specific concerns that people want to raise with us. Where queries have not been responded to, we will happily engage on them. We make every effort as part of the consultation process to respond to people's concerns. Often if a request requires detailed analysis it will take some time. We are committed to responding to people and informing them of how long it will take us to pull together whatever information is required. If we are not doing this, we need to improve. From my perspective, it should not be the case that people are left waiting for answers. If specific queries have been raised and not answered, I am happy to look at that and rectify the situation.

Ms Meghan will respond to the question on the North-South interconnector and the consultation in that regard.