Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid

11:05 am

Mr. Fintan Slye:

The North-South interconnector is the most advanced of the three projects I discussed. There has been a detailed analysis of the underground option in that case. We conducted a detailed technical analysis that included an examination of a route. The independent commission, which was appointed by the Government, also reported on the underground option. In the cases of the other projects, questions are being asked about the detail of the information about undergrounding that is available. It is being suggested that such studies were not done. We need to look at that.