Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

To add to what Deputy Higgins said, I cannot believe the Minister of State is hiding behind legal waffle. This is a fully publicly owned company under the aegis of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte.

Consequently, he can intervene and tell the ESB to put the cable underground. It is as simple as that.

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