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
Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
I thank the witnesses for coming in today. Mr. Creegan said in his statement that delivery times are one of the challenges for delivering on emissions. He has just stated that things have happened but there is still a lot more to be done. I would say there is a lot more to be done and it needs to be done a whole lot more quickly. London, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Vienna, Edinburgh, Brussels, Stockholm, Sofia, Rome, Madrid, Copenhagen, Budapest, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Athens, Lisbon and Berlin all have contactless systems for their public transport. Dublin and Paris are the only two capital cities in Europe that are yet to have them. I know a project is under way for which the contract was signed in April 2024. Can Mr. Creegan go through the four phases for the delivery of that? What is in each of those phases and when will we have a fully contactless system in our public transport?
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