Electricity Grid
Dail Éireann — 2026-09-17
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Darragh O'Brien (FF), Dublin Fingal East

It is important there is visibility across the projects and there is. I have no difficulty in getting that information to the Deputy but the operators make public that detailed information on the progress of investments, and rightly so. In December, CRU published the transmission baseline programme, which sets out all of the transmission projects in PR 6, along with the associated delivery milestones. EirGrid publishes updates in respect of delivery against these milestones every quarter. They are available on their website. It is rightly made public. We are not saying every single project will be delivered on time under this massive programme but I have asked it to really identify and focus on the most critical projects under PR 6. I meet them every month together and I am meeting EirGrid again today. Above all else, this provides that resilience for the grid, allows us to increase our capacity, get more renewables into our system and provide more storage - we are third in Europe for long duration battery storage but we still need more. This is the absolute focus of what we do and the real priority area for us.

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Sitting date: 2026-09-17