Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

North-South Interconnector: Discussion

12:00 pm

Ms Jenny Pyper:

Deputy O'Donovan may have given an impression that the pylons will run up to the Border and then suddenly go underground. That is not my understanding. My understanding is that this entire interconnector is overhead on both sides of the Border. There are concerns from Northern Ireland representatives, and the planning process there is at a slightly different stage. The planning application is now with An Bord Pleanála. The process in Northern Ireland will go to the Planning Appeals Commission within the coming weeks. There will then be a parallel planning process in Northern Ireland in which concerns similar to those that have been expressed here today will undoubtedly-----