Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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Question 18: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will direct the ESB to consider the offer made by a person (details supplied) to have the proposed power line that is to cross their land buried underground instead of cutting down a 60-metre-wide avenue of mature trees through their land; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the ESB has in recent years replaced overhead lines with underground lines in some urban areas and that this approach should now be extended to rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29911/11]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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I have no statutory function regarding the construction of specific power lines or in relation to arrangements entered into with landowners by ESB Networks and EirGrid. The matter raised is an operational matter for the two State bodies with statutory responsibilities to deliver Ireland's transmission and distribution network infrastructure.