Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If I may jump in on that point, I know of a person in north County Clare who has bought an electric car but has encountered a problem. He lives in a town and has an on-street parking space. It is not his space but, most of the time, it is available for him to park there. He contacted the county council as he or she wanted to run ducting out. The council stated that he does not own the parking space but, rather, just has routine usage of it, so it will not run ducting out to the parking space. He cannot run a cable out through his window and across to the parking space. There will be teething problems. The Department of Transport and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage have agreements in respect of ducting for broadband and other utilities but nobody has thought about how to get a 3 m flex cable out the window of this person's home and to his car.