Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. Graham Doyle:

There is a national target we all have to work towards. We have talked about how that is being co-ordinated across Government. In the transport space, we are very focused in this area. We have worked extremely hard to argue very strongly for heavy investment in public transport. That has been a major focus of our work as a Department and of my personal work over recent years. We now have a plan. Senator Grace O'Sullivan made the very important point that it is not just about electric vehicles, EVs. Even when people are in EVs, there could be a congestion issue, if we are not moving people onto public transport. We focused on the modal shift piece. We are technology-takers when it comes to electric vehicles in terms of private car use or other versions. We are pressing extremely hard, albeit as technology-takers, to see standards improve particularly in the freight space because that is where-----

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