Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Declan Meally:

No, it has not yet. Just to explain the way we look at the charging, the charging strategy has four levels of charging, home charging, on-street charging which is called public charging, destination charging which would be for hotels or workplaces and finally the fast charging which you see on motorways. The public charging is for people who do not have off-street parking. We brought in a grant two years ago for local authorities to be able to apply and put in a charger, if there is demand from people on their streets who say they want a charger, and the local authorities get a €5,000 rebate from ourselves for it. That is still an open call available to local authorities to draw down. What has happened in the meantime is the local authorities are looking at their own strategies, whether it is better to provide local hubs of charging, or is it better to do it on-street, or perhaps to replace and have trickle chargers on street lights. They have been working through that for the past 12 to 18 months to see what is the best local authority strategy and how to address that. Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and others have been working on that. That is why discussions-----

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