Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Right, I get that. This could work out perfectly in the sense that if we move into renewables and have an infrastructure that can play this, we are in a completely different place. We are in the world we need to be in. The big thing, which is almost a repeat of what was said earlier, and I am hearing about pilots and all the rest, is how we facilitate home-charging units for people who do not have that. Could I get a bit of detail in relation to the over-hanging arm and anything else that is being looked at? I refer to multi-unit chargers within estates and everything else. It is the fact of actually being able to secure and control them and all the rest of it, and regular wear and tear combined with not so regular wear. Unfortunately, we have regular cases whereby stuff that is left unattended can be damaged, which creates its own difficulty.

If we are talking about local authorities then, a guy approached me previously and he was quite straight in a sense. He was selling cars and said he would like to sell more EV. He did not believe - whether this was fair is something I will chase up over the summer - that there was sufficient level of interest from the local authority in County Louth. Again, however, it could be a case that we basically need someone to at least go into a number of local authorities with a certain element of focus to show people best practice and what needs to be done and work alongside other stakeholders to produce what is needed.