Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. Graham Doyle:

There are many players involved on a core issue such as climate change. In answer to Deputy Corcoran Kennedy, I said that co-ordination across Government has improved on all issues. The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment has a very close working relationship with the NTA. The low emissions vehicle, LEV, task force was a good example of that. We were very anxious to try to find a structure that would allow us to work through those co-ordination issues, and we worked with our colleagues to get the task force up and running. It has made a significant difference and there is very constructive engagement now. We have spoken about parking at train stations, and I know that the issue of charging for carparking where electric vehicles are charging has come up in the local authorities. We have started to look at how that can be addressed by bringing the local authorities in under one of the work streams in the LEV task force. That is significant.

I am interested in the point raised about how some people are moving back to hybrid vehicles from electric vehicles. Ms Behan might address that issue further.