Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Just to pick up on the point that the Chair made, I asked if the amount allocated to local authorities was sufficient. The feedback that I am getting from local authority is that the amount that is being allocated for the retrofitting with local authority is approximately €10,000 short of what is required and it does not have the capacity to raise that from any other source.

Could somebody drop us a note on the number of charging points and if the local authorities will be the primary ones providing those? I am sure there will be some at petrol stations and so on, but we need to get some idea of what the scale is so we can follow it up with our individual local authorities as well. It certainly is way short.