Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If I understand his question correctly, an electric vehicle task force has been set up to consider situations such as the one the Deputy mentioned when he spoke about motor taxation going down as the number of electric cars go up. I understand that is what the Deputy is really talking about. The task force is sitting at the moment and has been set up to examine this and other issues. We have some fairly steep targets which I hope we will meet, but they will be fairly expensive to meet. I think the target is 70,000 electric vehicles by 2023-2024. There obviously would be a fall off in revenue for the motor taxation office and its officials are considering that fall off. I was speaking to them about it this morning. There will be some sort of loss of revenue although I am not sure what it will be because it depends on whether we meet the targets.

The local government fund is managed by the Department with responsibility for the environment. It comes mainly from motor tax receipts but is managed by that Department.