Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

Commissioning this report was part of the process the Department went through in which it set up Fergus Cahill as an independent chairman to bring in the parties to examine how to implement Government policy, which was to bring the network assets into the ownership of EirGrid. That was its primary task. As a side element to its work the report might have examined various different options but I have not seen the final document. However, its primary task was to examine the analysis of the Government proposal as set out in the programme for Government three years ago.

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