Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

It is exactly our ambition to be a testbed for the technology. Our first requirement was to get any vehicles as there is a queue of countries who seeking to be in Ireland's position, having been able to have signed a memorandum of understanding with Renault-Nissan and hopefully with other companies such as Mitsubishi. First, this will give us the opportunity of having some vehicles, because certain countries that will seek vehicles will not be able to have access to them, to turn Ireland into a testbed facility.

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