Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion
Dr. Aoife O'Grady:
That has been the local authorities' role so far. What we are looking at now through the infrastructure strategy is really stepping up activity and responsibility by local authorities where they will be facilitators and enablers of the provision of residential charging and maybe even destination charging in their own self-owned car parks. On destination charging, we are not anticipating that local authorities will run and operate charge point systems. We anticipate that they will do the enabling works to get a site ready to go and then they will be able to enter into either a lease or concession agreement with a charge point operator to run that for them for the benefit of local residents. We will be looking at different business models.
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