Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Anne Graham:
We do not have it at present. It is not that we are not doing that work; it is just that I cannot give the Deputy that information now. We will have it very soon. The transport strategy drafted and approved in 2016 had an investment in infrastructure such as DART, MetroLink and Luas and the modelling of that showed even with that investment, there would only be a 3% reduction in carbon emissions taking into account the growth in travel demand.
The challenge is quite large in terms of what we can achieve in reducing transport emissions. Modelling was not carried out on what carbon emissions would be given by changing the bus fleet, or public transport fleet, to being low or no carbon emissions and what would happen with the number of electronic vehicles being introduced in the car fleet. It all needs to be modelled and we do not have that work done at present.
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