Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

EnergyCloud, Clúid, CHI and a couple of housing bodies are involved. They have reached 1,000 homes so far, including 500 in Fingal. It uses the power that would not have been used otherwise to heat water in households.

We have significant work to do on EVs but if we look at where we are at right now, we will achieve our 2025 target. We have more than 177,000 EVs on the road at this point in the year. We are seeing the transition in our public transport fleet through the use of sustainable fuels like HVO alternatives as well as electric vehicles. The overall target to 2030 is exacting but we will be close enough to it. We may not hit it but I am reworking some of the grants for EVs to make them even more accessible. We are on target with our renewable fuel blending ambitions and increasing the fuel blend that is there. By way of example, I opened a Panda and GNI compressed natural gas, CNG, station just last week. It was another CNG refuelling facility for heavy goods vehicles. That is really welcome and there are 20 more on the way. The infrastructure is being built up.

I published the national EV charging plan for infrastructure, which details where the additional EV chargers are going. We are working with local authorities right across the country on that. That infrastructure is being built up at an accelerated rate.