Mr. Fintan Slye:

Effectively, it enables an existing mesh transmission network, which has been developed here over years, to transmit higher levels of power from one area to another. It takes a grid and between places on that grid it enables it to transmit more power across the existing network.

In the case of Grid Link, the need to do something is driven in part by the fact that there is a great deal of renewable generation coming on stream in the south and south west. In Cork and Kerry, there is a lot of renewable generation coming on stream and I mentioned earlier in response to Deputy Michael Moynihan that a number of transmission stations are being built down there to facilitate that. Part of it is to move that increased level of renewable resource and get it to where the demand for increased levels of power is - primarily on the eastern seaboard concentrated around Dublin. To allay a concern which may have underpinned the question, the solution does not take the power and force it to go somewhere, it enables the grid to carry it if that is the right thing for the grid to do. It is not de factodepriving an area of resources. If I am not getting to the heart of the Deputy's question, I ask him to please say so and I will try again.