The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources recently commissioned “an independent study, with a view to providing the best available professional advice on the relative merits of constructing and operating overhead transmission lines compared to underground cables.” In a submission to the study, for which the deadline was 7th March, 2008, Deputy Joan Burton TD has called for overhead power lines in the Dublin 15 to be submerged, particularly where they run in close proximity to houses or schools.