Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Paul Mulvaney:

The spend is still relatively low because we are at the design stage for a lot of those. Physical spend at the design stage is quite low. The figure of €26 million is for all underground cable. There are other underground cables, such as cables with paper insulation that do not have fluid and others with nitrogen gas insulation. We are replacing all of those on a risk basis. Of that roughly €25 million, around €12 million is for the fluid-filled cables. We are spending about €4 million at the moment but we are designing for more. That will run into PR5.