Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid

10:15 am

Mr. Fintan Slye:

I will go through the questions in the order they were asked and answer as fully as I can. The first question was about Grid25 and the fact that it was published in 2008, at a time when the economy was very different from the economy we have today. The Deputy is correct about that. As we take each project forward it is re-evaluated with the best up-to-date information. While Grid25 was a strategy that dealt with the entirety of the grid over a number of years, as we take that down to project level, such as, for example, the Grid Link project mentioned by the Deputy, we study it in the context of the best information we have available. In addition, at each of the stage gates throughout the project we re-evaluate it with better, more up-to-date information if we have it.