Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Finance
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2020
Chapter 16 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Audited Financial Statements of the Exchequer for 2020
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
Okay.
On electric vehicles and hybrids, we were told last week in a reply from the Department of Finance that there is a target of 100,000 vehicles by 2030, which goes back to the point I asked Mr. McCarthy about. We were told it was really a market function. We know there are grants for vehicles under a certain size. What analysis has been done of the prospect of people moving over? Is the 100,000 just picked out of the air as a target? Is there an analysis of people's ability in respect of the production of these vehicles, their cost effectiveness and all of that?
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