Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

——and locations will require a good network connection to ensure that they have electricity in any given system. There are difficulties for industries locating in the north-west because we do not have a very strong grid. Much of the reason for the development of this grid is to develop renewables North-South as well as providing a better balanced and more robust system, so that if there are outages it can withstand it. It will also support economic developments in areas where that is an issue at present.

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