Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will use another project as an example, the Greenlink interconnector, which the Deputy knows runs from near Great Island power station in Wexford to the UK. It is a similar 500 MW interconnector. My understanding is that its operators got planning permission and a foreshore licence in 2019. They applied for it and their final planning applications were just agreed this year. They expect to come online, as it were, in 2023. Similar timelines apply to the Celtic interconnector. We expect that it will be live by 2026.

To go back to our earlier conversation about electricity supply certainties, these projects will be hugely beneficial in giving us energy security and export potential, and, to my mind, they will dampen price increases. They are of substantial benefit. We should be looking now at further interconnection as we move to higher renewable capabilities and especially as we develop offshore power to give us that export and balancing capability, which we will look at further. The next two interconnectors will come in 2023 and 2026.

See this speech in context