Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It certainly cannot be the case that, on the one hand, we are building out and improving the grid, which has no relationship to the wind export project about which people are complaining, and on the other hand that the transmission system for the wind export project can never be connected to the Irish grid. It is one or the other. I say again, for the umpteenth time, that if there is not an intergovernmental agreement and unless the economics stack up for both countries, as with any trade agreement, there will not be a wind export project. The wind export project being worked on is dependent on an intergovernmental agreement and on the economics working out to the benefit of both countries.

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