Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses very much for their presentations. I have a couple of questions for the ESB. The first one is about the notion of installation points and the quite expensive nature of the infrastructure. Reference was made in the presentation to the size of the investment programme the ESB had to put in to predict the growth in EV. There is also a mention of the available capacity on the electricity grid. What do the witnesses think of the ambition of the climate plan to have 1 million EVs on the road, as against 1,500 electric buses?

What is their opinion of both the availability of the capacity on the grid and the expense of it? Should we not have an ambition in the reverse - more buses than privately owned EVs? In that regard, has ESB had any contact with the State transport bodies, such as the National Transport Authority or Transport for Ireland, on electrifying the bus fleet and what that might mean to the national grid in terms of efficiency?