Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will go back to the point Ms Sayers made about charging vehicles at night. I am guilty of that. I do this out of pure convenience. How do we incentivise people to do that? If we need greater infrastructure, as Deputy Smith quite rightly raised, and if we have some infrastructure issues where there is a question mark over the investment required to meet the demands of the ever-increasing electric vehicle market, how do we incentivise people to use their home charging equipment at night?

I thank Dr. Ó Tuama for his response to my question on investment. It is certainly to be welcomed. My constituency in Fingal has been terrific with regard to plans and investment in cycling infrastructure, and not just on the coast road side. It has been right throughout the community in the past three or four years. I certainly believe the ratio is helpful. While it might be a case of how long is a piece of string, is there a total investment envisaged for the sort of cycle infrastructure we would require, particularly in urban and outer urban communities around Ireland, and given what we would expect to have to invest in the coming decades to bring us up to the same standard as many of our European counterparts?