Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This was raised by the Deputy earlier in the week and there was an indication from the Taoiseach as to the capacity of local authorities to plan work in this area. There could not be more effort being put into restoring power at the moment, but as Seán Hogan indicated this morning, some of these breakages involving going to each pole and identifying the fault. That can take greater time, and that is one of the constraints that people are working under. Even with 4,000 people in the field to carry out repairs it will take time to get to all of the breakages.

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