Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Accessibility in Planning and Delivery of Transport Projects: Discussion

Mr. Hugh Creegan:

I can give the number now. We did a calculation for taxis some months ago. The cost of converting the remainder of the taxi fleet, both private and public cost, we estimate at €190 million because there are approximately 15,000 or 16,000 vehicles to be transitioned.

On the last point about electrification, it is worth saying we are buying some hybrid diesel electric vehicles this year in the bus fleet we are buying, which can run considerable distances electric only and we are also placing orders for fully electric vehicles from this year on. They will be equipped with a noise generator for operation within urban areas, for exactly the reason the Deputy said in that visually impaired people could not hear the vehicle coming along if it is silent and therefore, they are equipped with a noise generator. Bizarrely, we have to create a noise, but it is for understandable reasons.

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