Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

North-South Interconnector: Discussion

12:00 pm

Photo of Patrick O'DonovanPatrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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This is important because people are being asked to accept this carbuncle on the landscape across their area, which I understand will go underground at the receiving point in Northern Ireland. It will then feed out through Northern Ireland. They will be asked to take this. It is a one-way energy street. It is starting in County Meath, just north of Maynooth, and will move north. It is of no benefit to those people.