Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There is a lot of information provided on grams per kilometre. As I understand it, the laden weight of a vehicle and other such information is available. The key approach in the first instance is putting a price on it. The owners of larger, very expensive vehicles, in particular, do not get to avail of EV grants and the VRT reductions. We are reviewing, as part of the process of changing our policies by design, the issue of car design. That was one of the controversial issues picked up in some of our demand-management studies. It is a case of considering measures that make the required information clear to the public. The likes of vehicle weight could be dealt with in the advertising review.

On the rental schemes, we are developing guidelines for local authorities on e-bike rental and scooter schemes. The transport legislation I mentioned, which is due to be concluded in the Seanad in the coming weeks and hopefully signed by the President thereafter, will change the environment to make it legal for us to have e-scooters. It presents an opportunity for us to learn from what has happened and what has worked or not in other cities in terms of rental schemes for both e-bikes and e-scooters. The guidelines on this are being worked on in the Department.