David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----if they came in to list the long list of failures for which the Government has been responsible and the unfairness of many of the policies which have been imposed on many people. This fact is reflected in the opinion polls. The people will see through the Government spin when we come to the local and European elections.

I wish to raise the issue of Eirgrid's plans to build the North-South interconnector and also the GridLink project for the south-east and the west. A Red C opinion poll published at the weekend shows that a majority of citizens are against the overhead power lines and are in favour of undergrounding. This Government has set up a commission which is not really truly independent. EirGrid will carry out the analysis on whether it is possible to put the cables underground and the commission will consider the analysis provided by EirGrid, when we all know that EirGrid is prejudiced in its view, and is against the undergrounding of cables-----