Mr. Fintan Slye:

First, the cost is not a multiple of 1.57. That cost relates to a comparison of two different things. In the case of the Grid Link project, to build a 700 MW interconnector between Cork and Kildare, the multiple comparing that to a 400 kV overhead solution that goes from Cork to Waterford to Kildare is 1.57. However, what is proposed and needed in the case of the North-South connector is technically very different. It is more than twice the capacity required.