Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

He is lying down and letting the big business get on with this. The Labour Party, a socialist party, was founded in my town of Clonmel. The Minister is allowing big business ride roughshod over the whole community; they have him opening shops and offices and getting him up on a JCB to turn a sod to make this look good. The Minister has really fallen into the trappings of power and into delivering whatever Angela wants. All the Ministers will be fighting to go Europe for the EU Commissioner's job because they will not want to face the public. The people of Tipperary are not going to allow these to go ahead. I am pro-business and pro-economic development but I want reasonable account to be taken of people's right to live in safety, in health and to enjoy their environment and not be persecuted by these obnoxious pylons. The figure cited that the underground option would cost three times the overhead option is untrue. I understand this work a small bit. I am not saying I am the salmon of knowledge on everything but I have a small bit of experience in this kind of work and I know that is a lie. It is an untruth. I am not saying that the Minister came up with that cost but it is not three and half times the overhead option. He should go back and check that and maybe count the tits on Mrs. Murphy's cow.

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