Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Llewellyn is probably aware that, along that route, there is need for a motorway and bypasses of towns like Charleville and Buttevant in particular, which are major bottlenecks. However, it is a good economic corridor. We are trying to get an Atlantic corridor running from Cork to Limerick to Galway and beyond as a counter-pole to Dublin.

Mr. Llewellyn made an interesting point on the whole area around electric vehicles and he might expand on that. When roads are being built, it is what is on the roads at that time that will determine the emissions. Obviously, fossil fuel emissions from cars are very heavy on carbon whereas that is not the case for electric cars. That is one question. What would be involved? We are looking to have 1 million electric vehicles in Ireland by 2030, which is nine years away. From Mr. Llewellyn's experience, what is required to meet that target?

Second, Mr. Llewellyn made reference to TII looking at more environmentally-friendly ways of building the roads. When the roads are being built, they bring risks in terms of carbon. Will Mr. Llewellyn expand on that? They are two sides of the same coin in one sense. We want to get to a point where roads are not seen as a total enemy of the environment. We need to evolve over time to electric cars and look at ways of using components that are not as carbon emitting as other areas. Mr. Llewellyn might elaborate on both of those points.