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

We will continue to look at this, but I am concerned nervous that once we start going down the path of grants based on geography, it would be possible to buy a car in one place and send it to another. My brother down in Cork could buy it, I could then buy it and bring it up here. We could have all sorts of distortions that could start to create difficulties. Where we do need to be strategic, especially in rural Ireland and in the more remote areas, is having destination charging and community charging. We are going to do that through our ZEVI offices. This is an area in which we have particular potential. As much as people in rural Ireland have an advantage in terms of housing, which tends to make home charging easier, there is a difficulty in areas like the Dingle peninsula, western Connemara, Donegal and all these areas. We can and should be strategic in putting in what is needed there. We are doing this now. We are being strategic as well in the midlands being part of our just transition scheme. Those areas will be ahead of the curve because they are going to get significant fast-charging infrastructure ahead of other parts of the country. This is an example of the type of a targeted approach referred to. This is a better way of doing it rather than trying to create this strange, two-tiered car market in the country, depending on one's postcode. I could see difficulties in that approach. I can understand the logic behind what the Deputy is saying, but I think we might have distortionary affects that would have unintended knock-on consequences.