Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

1:59 pm

Mr. Robert Watt:

As the Deputy is aware, there is a significant target for increasing the number of electric vehicles. It is 4,000 now, but it is due to go up to 500,000 by 2030. We will need a massive increase in the number of charging points. I believe the ESB produced a paper recently - I am not familiar with the details. It outlines how this will be implemented. It requires considerable infrastructure.