Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

North-South Interconnector: EirGrid

11:30 am

Mr. John Fitzgerald:

There is no set distance from whooper swans. My understanding is that it is about the flight paths and that they tend to fly into transmission lines. We try to study them to ensure we do not put our transmission lines where they would adversely impact on them.