Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage
2:00 am
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
I live in Galway city. It takes me an hour and a half to get to Clifden. It also takes me an hour and a half to get to the likes of Carna and Cill Chiaráin. Somebody may be going all the way from Carna to work in construction in Dublin, as people do early on a Monday morning or whenever. Unfortunately, some people cannot avail of the option of buying an electric car because of the lack of infrastructure in more rural areas. We need to factor in that the necessary infrastructure is not in place in some of our more rural areas. We might wish it was there, but it simply is not.
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