Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will keep this concise. The figures I have seen show that more than 13,000 such vehicles were bought last year. To ramp this up to 945,000, close to 1 million, by 2030 we would need an average of 130,000 per year or, if starting at our current pace, to scale up to 170,000 or 180,000 in the second half of this decade. The average number of cars sold in a year veers between 90,000 and 110,000. I have been following very carefully Mr. Meally's comments on the desire for that total increase and on why it makes sense but, if there are only 100,000 cars being sold a year on average, how realistic is it to ramp up to 170,000 or 180,000 and meet those targets by 2030?