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

I do not know what the Deputy's plan B is. My understanding from discussions with Sinn Féin colleagues up North is that they, like me, want to see this project being built. There are real security and costs to the public, North and South, for us not progressing. It is a matter for the CRU, as regulator, to decide on the exact mechanisms, such as the potential use of compulsory purchase orders or any other mechanism, it will adopt and the approach we take. That is the legally correct constitutional approach but I, like the Deputy's colleagues up North, believe that we should build the North-South interconnector now. It will benefit the Irish people, North and South.

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