Ms Anne Graham:

When we developed the transport strategy in 2016, a Government target on what carbon emissions should be achieved across the 20-year lifetime of the strategy had not been set out. It is different now for the review of the transport strategy for the greater Dublin area. It will have to be taken into account because it will be Government policy as part of the review of the transport strategy we are drafting and which will be out for consultation later on this year.

We are setting out to reduce our transport fleet's emissions in parallel with that. We have already purchased a hybrid fleet. They are considered clean vehicles which will contribute to a reduction in carbon emissions. We have an ambition to go to a zero fleet in our urban centres as quickly as possible but we are beginning the procurement of that fleet to be introduced in our urban services.