Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It should have been done in a right and truthful way that would have allowed people to have confidence in it. People should not have been fobbed off by being told they would not understand the physics. Those who claimed to know better tried to tell the public that this could not be done underground. It can and will be done underground. We must respect the will of the people in this regard. We want progress and development. If the blame for the lack of progress and development, and for everything else the Minister has cited this afternoon, is to be laid at any door, it should not be laid at the door of the communities that are affected and the public representatives of those communities - it should be laid firmly at the door of the Government and of EirGrid.