Mr. Fintan Slye:

The Senator is quite right that there is an existing overhead line which is 275 kV in fact as that is the voltage in Northern Ireland and as such the transformers exist and allow the station. There is an underground alternative to the North-South project and it is deployed using HVDC technology. It is technically possible to do it as we outlined the last time we were at the committee. It is technically not as good a solution, but it is a technically possible one.