Ms Deborah Meghan:

When we present and bring a project forward it is an indication of a reinforcement required. With the Grid Link project, we start with general study areas and constraint mappings that lead us to route corridors. We publish a number of reports. Within reports, for example, the stage one report which gets us to the point of corridors, we demonstrate the need for the project and how that was developed. We also talk about the alternative technology types, for example, in the Grid West project there are technical reports and summaries on consideration of alternatives. Again, they are developed and continually evolved through the stages of the project. When we produce another report for the next step in the process, the need would again be addressed and the analysis and consideration of alternatives would continue. It is an ongoing process.

We must bring a real project to the public. Rather than saying we have a problem with the grid, we must bring a project that can be understandable so we get to a point where it is understood that we need to link the points from Cork via Wexford up to Dunstown in Kildare. Therefore, it is a project that is understandable. We must then bring through the roadmap we designed to deliver on that piece of infrastructure. It starts at quite an early stage in the process and it is beholden on us, as the Deputy points out, to explain the work that has gone before. We attempt to do that in our stage one report and every report subsequent to that.