Minister is very condescending

Energy Minster Pat Rabbitte’s defence of Eirgrid’s plans to upgrade the grid has become strident.

He is condescending to people who question the rationale behind Grid25, and condescending to the community groups calling for underground cabling. Most people would not question the need to upgrade infrastructure. But the debate is who stands to benefit from this project and whether the costs, both economic and human, are necessary or justifiable.

Minister Rabbitte repeatedly says the Grid25 project has nothing to do with large-scale windfarm developments and that people who are against the siting of pylons and high-voltage, overhead transmissions lines are conflating the two.