North-South Interconnector
Dail Éireann — 2020-09-22
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Darren O'Rourke (SF), Meath East

The solution here, and I want to contribute to finding a solution, is to co-design an independent review of the undergrounding option involving all of the stakeholders, with the identification of a suitable panel of inquiry and independent consultants, where the terms of reference and the methodology to be employed will be co-designed with the stakeholders. We have never had that. In fairness to the community group they engaged with the 2011 report, but subsequent to that in their opinion, which I share, there have been desktop exercises and far more comprehensive reviews of other projects that have ended up in a very different place to the North-South interconnector. We are going to stay at an impasse unless we adopt the approach I am recommending here.

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Sitting date: 2020-09-22