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You get to a point at which politicians will have to make political decisions—that is what politicians are elected to do. We will live or die on the political decisions that we make.
As I understand it, the committee has no discretion in relation to Mr Quinan's motion other than to support it or oppose it. If we oppose it, the matter will die and the instrument will continue unchallenged.
Such lines tend to be quite long and they are used for transferring energy from power stations to distribution networks, which is classically the purpose of transmission lines.