Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I understand it, we cannot transmit power without cables. Do we provide the country with capacity to have business and generate power for industry, and, therefore, economic expansion and jobs, or do we not? If we do, what is the way we do this?

I listened to the news this morning of a major case in Wicklow which was turned down by the planning appeals process and which was overturned by the Supreme Court. There was a case in which EirGrid was negligent in adhering to the planning process and the application for the major North-South interconnector was turned down.

As part of the programme for Government, the Minister appointed a panel of international experts which concluded that the cost of undergrounding a grid would be three times the cost of over-grounding it. Are we expecting everyone to have to pay three times the cost for their electricity?

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