Dr. Aoife O'Grady:

One of the challenges we have with EVs is that we are trying to get new EVs on the market so we will have a second-hand market in future years. More than half of all new cars are bought in Dublin so if we say that people in Dublin cannot buy EVs that means only 50% of the new car market will be eligible for EVs. If Dublin is taken out of the equation, that makes it difficult when we are trying to grow our share of EVs that can be sold on in two or three years to people who will buy them second hand, and most of the population never buy a new car; rather they buy second-hand cars. We are trying to push the market share of EVs and new vehicle sales so that in two or three years, we will have second-hand EVs for people to buy. Second-hand imports from the UK have plummeted since Brexit and we cannot get them through-----