Mr. Fintan Slye:

In January 2014, we set out a number of initiatives and we were acutely conscious we needed to review and improve how we consult and engage. We did an extensive review of this and published the findings of the reports even if at times they made difficult reading for us. We published them in their entirety and set out a number of commitments we made to fix it. We also set out a community gain fund. The policy basis for this was set out in the Government's policy statement in 2012, with the onus clearly put on the developers of projects. We set out quite clearly what we thought was appropriate in this context, and this applies to the North-South interconnector project. We are acutely conscious this is a difficult project which impacts on communities along the route, and we need to continue to engage with them and listen to their concerns, which are real, to try to address them as best we possibly can.

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