Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have a concluding comment. This is a useful process. I have looked at the transport budget and my understanding is we are spending approximately 80% of our budget on new roads. When we look at this into the future, we can see that the motor industry will completely change. There will not only be low-emission vehicles, there will be fewer vehicles. Perhaps that is not easy for the SIMI to hear but everyone is saying there will be car-sharing and automated driving. We have to start planning for that level of revolution and we might not need to spend so many billions each year on roads. In that case, we might spend more on incentives than the €25 million we stopped spending about three or four years ago at the same time that we caught the target of investing in electric vehicles. I cannot remember when that €25 million was last given. Was 2012 or 2013? Nothing has been allocated since. It is no surprise that we end up not meeting targets when we do not back up what we say we are going to do on climate action with information on where we spend the money.