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 will so as not to leave a hanging end. I think the initiative is there. It is a complex piece of work. We have colleagues in the SEAI who are doing a lot of work with our colleagues in the Department of Transport, particularly on EV charging points. The question is the next generation and where we are moving to. From the point of view of transport, it is not only about replacing internal combustion engines, ICEs, with electric vehicles but also about modal shift and thinking philosophically about how we address transport generally. We are working with our colleagues in the Department of Transport on the grant schemes, EV charging and so on, but that is probably the next part of the thinking process.