Mr. Tony Goodwin:

In response to Deputy Breathnach's question about trucks versus the equivalent Euro 6 car, I will refer to the following information. The International Council of Clean Transportation, ICCT, which is the team that exposed Volkswagen's cheating on emissions testing, found that testing and compliance for heavy vehicles to be far better than cars where emissions cheating devices were commonplace. That is partly due to HGVs being more expensive and having more physical space to enable manufacturers fit the best technological solutions to meet the standards required. ICCT test results confirmed that only 10% of Euro 6 cars meet emissions limits in real world driving test conditions. In real world testing of nitrogen oxides, NOx, as a percentage of CO2 in Euro 6 trucks versus Euro 6 cars, the cars showed ten times the level of nitrogen oxide as trucks for the same amount of CO2 emissions.

Unfortunately, what has happened with the emissions scandal has affected Euro 6 trucks despite the fact that they are on a completely different plane.