Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I might try to squeeze in one last question because the clock is against me. I agree with Ms Donnelly. We all want to make seismic changes, but if a person is thinking about changing the car at the moment, in some parts of the country the infrastructure is not there to do so.

You might go to the forecourt and admire a beautiful electric car that will tick all the boxes it should tick but that will not be viable for someone if the necessary infrastructure is not within 5 km or 10 km of their home or in their home environment itself.

Although our committee deals with the broader remit of transport and communications, we have done a great deal of work on aviation. We have to congratulate, to some degree, the aviation sector, for leading on sustainable aviation fuels, SAFs. Unless I have totally missed the debate, which I have been following closely, I do not see the same movements being made in regard to sustainable marine fuels. Many of the larger vessels that leave Ireland are oil fired, while the smaller ones are diesel powered. Does Ms Donnelly have concerns about that? There is a good data set on aviation outputs and the carbon footprint of that, and there is a response, albeit slow. SAFs are coming on stream and Ireland will play a role, I hope, in the use of hydrogen in the west. Will Ms Donnelly comment on the use of marine fuel? Globally, it is seen as one of the big polluters. The cruise ship industry, of course, gets bad press. We do not have a huge cruise ship industry in Ireland but many vessels travel around our coastline. How could the Government, with a carrot as opposed to a stick, lead some transformation there?