Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are in a cost-of-living crisis and energy inflation is gargantuan. Electric Ireland was not slow last month to increase its prices. That is not a dig at Ms Ward as it is not her department. I am worried that we are not incentivising the modal shift to a greater extent. We need to assist with the roadmap. Ten years ago people were told that they should buy diesel vehicles, but now we are being told to buy electric vehicles. The Society of the Irish Motor Industry has told us that there is no hope of hitting the target of 1 million EV cars by 2030. I was going to compare the situation with "Love Island" but I had better not mention that here. To me, it is about how we can create a modal shift.