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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: There is some telephone interference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: Before asking Mr. O'Connor to respond, I will take Senator Whelan and Senator Brennan. We can thus group the questions, if that is okay, and we will get to all those who want to ask questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: Any interview at this committee is based on qualifications for the job. We should not make personal comments about age.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: A number of comments were made. I remind members that questions need to be about qualifications, not about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: -----age or anything else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: Of course the Deputy can get a reply. Anyone can be challenged on qualifications, conflicts of interest and so on. That is fair enough, but what is not challengeable is a person's age.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I am ruling on this matter. Mr. O'Connor should answer the general questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: The position is chairperson.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: That matter has been raised already, Deputy Colreavy, and many other members are waiting to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: Mr. O'Connor is not the person to examine them. Deputy Colreavy has raised the point but I want to be fair to everyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I think the matter has been given a sufficient airing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I would like the Deputy to ask his final question so that Mr. O'Connor can answer the two of them together.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: The Deputy has five seconds to make a good judgment in that regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: The Deputy is over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: The Deputy is over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I thank Mr. O’Connor for his comments and statement. I note how he has referred to the controversy raging at the moment. That is important. Before I hand over to members I would like to ask a couple of questions on that. Mr. O’Connor states that he strongly subscribes to the idea that meaningful public consultation with local residents, property owners and communities is an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: Would the independent information not be helpful to all sides in this debate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I will call members in the following order: Deputies Dooley, Coffey and Colreavy, and after that I will alternate Government and Opposition members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I will confine it to three or four minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid: Discussion with Chairman Designate (3 Dec 2013)
John O'Mahony: I will try to be fair to everybody. Non-members of the committee will come in afterwards but we will try to get through the questions as quickly as possible. Members should confine their contributions as much as possible to questions and Mr. O’Connor should answer the questions as quickly as possible so that he and all the members get their points of view across.