Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The agreements with the leading international car companies are in effect exactly that. What we are seeing, with other companies such as IBM and its smart cities network coming in to work on the back of this, is a global tender. This is a global call from Ireland that we are going to develop this technology and inviting companies to test different systems here because we believe we will achieve economic benefit on the back of this.

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