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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: No. We will take the Deputy's questions now. He should ask them all now and the witnesses will respond to the current group of members, rather than to each member in turn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: The Deputy will have to work around that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I ask the Deputy to continue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: We cannot go through a series of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: That is fine as long as we get straight answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: The Deputy's opinion has been placed on the public record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: Deputy Patrick O'Donovan has been speaking for three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: A division has been called in the Chamber.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I will suspend the sitting because a division has been called in the Chamber.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I ask Deputy Patrick O'Donovan to list his questions again briefly. Mr. Fintan Slye will respond in order after we have had questions from Senator John Kelly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I call Senator John Kelly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: Will Mr. Slye please respond to Deputies Dessie Ellis and Patrick O'Donovan and Senator John Kelly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: Before we move on, can I go back to the question asked by Deputy Ellis, regarding children with autism. Should I interpret what has been said as that EirGrid will take that into special consideration when the lines are being decided? Is EirGrid saying that if there is engagement from a family of a child with autism, it will give special consideration to that in its planning application? In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I know EirGrid looks to engage with people, but what I want to know is whether it is stating here that in such instances the pylon will be moved? I am taking this as an example of a problem people say has not been addressed. Answering this question would be helpful in moving forward on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: That is just one example but there are others also on which we need direct answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I want to clarify that and I hope I am interpreting correctly what happened yesterday. Mr. O'Connor initially said that he would not like to live beside a pylon. At some stage later on in the questioning he indicated the issue of the 40 m or 50 m distance. It is important to give the correct interpretation of what happened yesterday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I think I am reflecting exactly what happened yesterday. That is my role as Chairman and that is exactly what happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: We will go to the next batch now, made up of Deputies Phelan, 'Ming' Flanagan, Heydon and Colreavy. You have three minutes each.