Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)

I stand in solidarity with Teresa Treacy, a 65 year old lover of the environment. What I see is a case of David and Goliath. She has been involved in a five year conflict since February 2006. Having started with 90 other landowners who were opposed to the pylons going overground, she is left on her own. The ESB has a choice. It argued initially that placing the cables underground was impossible. However, it later conceded that it could do so, but it would not for cost reasons. The life of this woman has been cut off for the past three weeks and this will continue until she purges her contempt. I ask the Minister to approach the CEO of the ESB to tell him to lift the injunction.

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