John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am a member of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, which had a meeting with the Irish Road Haulage Association and we discussed how no other fuel matches the torque provided by diesel and nothing has yet been invented to replace diesel. I noticed that the NTA mentioned the mix of hybrids, electric or diesel hybrid vehicles, etc. On the last occasion the NTA was here, albeit in a different context, it was stated that no electric engine as yet can handle the workload of Dublin Bus whereby the fleet of buses travel to and fro for 15 or 16 hours a day. How confident is the NTA that we will get to a point whereby the fleet is replaced or replenished for genuine climate change reasons, as opposed to political reasons, that will reap rewards and benefits?