Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What we want is a recovery that can be made secure. We want to keep the recovery going and we want more people to participate in it. Perhaps the Deputy will be able to stand up later and acknowledge that an additional 130,000 jobs have been created. Everything is aimed at ensuring that more people can participate in the recovery.

In the context of actual delivery, I am not sure the Deputy wanted to listen to what I said a moment ago. I have already outlined what we are doing in respect of buses alone. Let me deal with electric cars. It is a pity that in her analysis of the issue, the Deputy failed to acknowledge that there are more than 1,000 electric recharging points available across our country and that 97% to 98% of all towns and cities that need the points now have them in place. The infrastructure is in place to enable their growth, which the Deputy completely missed in the points she put to me. In fairness, one of the few points she made that I agreed with relates to the need to look at the use of electric cars and to increase their numbers. That is why the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy White, and I have put in place a new interdepartmental group to consider measures to incentivise the use of these vehicles and to take advantage of the very infrastructure the Deputy did not want to acknowledge in her contribution.

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