Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion

Mr. Michael Mahon:

ESB Networks is responsible for discharging the planning conditions. It wrote to each of the three county councils towards the end of quarter 3 last year and has been waiting with the county councils to engage. ESB has prepared construction environmental management plans, a traffic management plan and the required conditions but the first step in that regard for us to consider moving the project forward is to discharge those with the county councils. We understand the county councils wish to meet to agree the process. There is no point taking a different process to each of the counties. The ESB is waiting for engagement from the councils to progress that.