Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 July 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed)
Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
If there is anything our guests can come back to us on I would welcome that. If this could be an ongoing collaboration it would be helpful. For me, the piece is trying to get that model right to take people step-by-step. We had some comments before about a couple of cars per village or whatever. That is not going to work in rural areas but it certainly is going to in the cities. I see around Dublin the car-sharing model in now here. There are a couple of companies that have cars just left around like bikes and one joins up. Anything that can be done to drive that is positive because that is what will ultimately change behaviour. Then a person has control over what vehicle he or she is driving. That is the piece that is going to be the hardest for all of us. It is about getting over that gap between where we are and where we need to be and bringing the people with us without putting too great a burden on them. Any help or guidance on that would be really helpful.
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