Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 July 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Ms Verona Murphy:

Our difficulty is that we are not the people creating the CO2 emissions. With the Euro 6 standard there can be actually no emissions. We are spending a minimum 35 cent a litre for AdBlue for that Euro 6 standard truck on top of the price of diesel. We are not responsible. An incentive is certainly needed for the many cars on the road to change. We do not have an alternative. Doing this will not decrease the amount of trucks; it will make them more expensive. If an alternative of hydro, battery-powered or even compressed natural gas, CNG, comes in place, they are less efficient and will actually mean more trucks on the road. This is where we have to stress what we do; we know what we do.

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