Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Emissions Readings for Volkswagen Cars: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Lars Himmer:

I can assure the Deputy that we take all injured parties very seriously, but it is very early days. We have already made financial allocations to pay compensation. That was done in the early days in September after we became aware of it. We are looking at the impact of it, which is very important to establish injury. That will also depend on our getting the car back to where it needs to be. Again, we will work intensively on the test bench to get the car into the condition that it needs to be in. We will not shy away from responsibility. We have been in Ireland for 65 years. We have no intention of running away from our responsibilities. I hope we will be here for at least another 65 years. We will co-operate, we are co-operating, and we will get to the bottom of it.

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