Ms Laura Behan:

The Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment and its Minister have responsibility for the policy area of EV infrastructure. The ESB is its agency and the network of chargers is within the remit of that Department. I understand, however, from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment that the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities, CRU, has this week published a new decision allowing for the transfer of the ownership of the charging network over to the ESB parent body. That will free up the ESB to invest in the publicly-available charging infrastructure. That particular logjam has been addressed this week.