Mr. Eugene Drennan:

To borrow the Deputy's phrase, there is a dream and there is the reality. We live in the reality. The percentage of the vehicles we are talking about that could switch to electricity is very small. You need a multifunctional vehicle in Ireland because we all go to the UK or the Continent. Only a very limited number of battery vehicles are allowed on ferries because the risk of a fire is too high. We have no choice but to use this type of vehicle. Mr. McPartlan sang our song when he rightly said we could come in here tomorrow morning and say we can reduce 90% of emissions by using HVO. Why does the reality not dawn? It is fortunate that we are here today. What the budget does is to show that Ireland would prefer to pay 26.8 cents per litre of a carbon penalty to Europe than to support us with a similar amount of money or a little more and decarbonise.