Mr. Brian Cooke:

That is more the social aspect of it. Most people buy second-hand cars, in particular people who cannot afford new cars. As that stock is starting to come in - from next year we will have vehicles from 2020 to 2023 - if we want to bring more people into the electric vehicle piece, we could do a couple of things. First, we could encourage people who perhaps have a seven- or eight-year-old car or even a ten-year-old car to change to an electric vehicle. In France, they have an income threshold for their social leasing for people who could not otherwise afford a second-hand car.

The other thing the Government could do is provide a support. There has been an issue because of the immaturity of the market with used EV residual values. It would encourage retailers, in particular outside Dublin, to accept EVs as a trade-in.