Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid
12:10 pm
Mr. Fintan Slye:
The factor of three I used today comes from the independent expert commission report commissioned by the Government to examine the case for and cost of undergrounding the North-South interconnector. The commission concluded that it would be three times more expensive than the overground option. That is the genesis and origin of the factor of three to which I referred today. Apologies if I confused in any way the analysis of different options. The Deputy makes a good point about the analysis of underground versus overhead. Perhaps I need to-----