Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Developing Ireland's Sustainable Transport System: Discussion
Mr. James Cogan:
Between the Department and the fuel industry, there is a positive attitude to it. It is just that the narrative is the fuel industry states somebody needs to tell them to do it and they will not do it automatically. They ask why would they, given that I am the only person in Ireland asking them to do it and I am nobody. They state that they will not act for me. The Department, on the other hand, states that it does not have a legislative power to mandate such a thing. The Department states that it does not have a tool to order the fuel industry to do it and that it needs to be done on some kind of collegial basis.
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