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
John Clendennen (Offaly, Fine Gael)
I am conscious of time and want to ask more questions. I will turn to the representatives of Fuels for Ireland and the Irish Road Haulage Association. I have been an advocate for HVO in other areas, particularly the likes of home heating. I would like to see it in this area, too. It has to be seen as an intermediary and must be supported. If we look at home retrofits and so on, it is an intermediary measure. It needs to be seen as that in this sector too.
I would like to get a better insight into the likes of electric vehicles. I see that a Swedish manufacturer now has a vehicle with a range of 600 km and a charging time of 40 minutes. Should we be looking at this in a two-tier range system or something similar? We are trying to incentivise people, where it is possible to do so and there is not a range anxiety piece, to use the likes of electric HGVs in cities and HVO on a broader island basis.
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