Ms Laura Behan:

In terms of the recharging infrastructure, my colleagues from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment chaired the infrastructure and pricing working group under the LEV task force. A significant amount of work was undertaken within that working group to identify demand and the stretches of road where we feel the deployment of fast-charging infrastructure is most likely to be needed. We worked closely on that with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI. I believe there will be a step-change in the electric vehicle, EV, recharging infrastructure provision in the next year as the climate fund is deployed and ESB investment is freed up. I hope we will see significant progress on that over the next year.