Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Brian Cooke:

My answer remains no. We would be supporting UK retailers over Irish retailers, who are investing in their premises and in training their staff. Between 2016 and 2019, the Irish new-car and used-car markets were undermined. They have not fully recovered. If we incentivise UK imports, we will undermine the new-car market, which will deliver the overwhelming majority of cars to the used-car market over the next few years.

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