Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have a final question for Mr. Brennan, after which my time will be up. I have run this point by the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, a few times. Obviously, the SEAI has significant oversight of building energy ratings, BER. When a person buys a house, he or she has a good idea how energy efficient it is and how well it heats and cools and everything else. When it comes to cars, there is the national car test, NCT, and one can look at the service record of the car. When it comes to electric cars, however, one needs to know the grade of battery the car has. That needs to be graded in some way, including across the years of car usage. Plant machinery is gauged in hours. If one looks on donedeal.ie, one will see advertisements for diggers or tractors that have clocked up a certain number of work hours clocked. To my knowledge, however - I hope our guests can contradict me on this - there is no database for some kind of national registry that grades car batteries in the second and third years of usage so that the buyer of a second-hand car knows what he or she is buying. Can Mr. Brennan enlighten us on those efforts?