Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion

Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

I thank the Deputy for his question. I was listening intently to it. I cannot offer any significant detail from the SEAI perspective at this juncture because the question of EV charging points would come to our transport team. What the Deputy has outlined is what I responded to Deputy Bruton about earlier. We administer that grant on a kind of drawdown basis. When it is drawn down, we will pay it out. Clearly, there are some issues there we must work through. I obviously cannot speak from the perspective of the local authorities on what their viewpoint is but I am happy to respond to the Deputy offline on the specific interactions we have had from our transport team about EV chargers.