Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I raised this matter with the Minister in April. At that stage, the low-emission vehicle task force was expected to report shortly. It has been examining this since September 2017. It is a moving target and continues to slip. The original target aimed at was 50,000 for 2020. Realistically, there will only be about 8,000 in the revised targets. Things are constantly slipping. When will this task force report? Will it recommend that there be charging points in public car parks and places where there will be availability for people travelling longer distances? Range anxiety is an issue.

The Minister outlined where the current availability is considered to be adequate. How can it possibly be adequate? There are only 70 fast chargers. It also takes a long time to get them repaired. It took six months to get the one in Macroom repaired. On a journey last year from Cork to Dublin, the two large population centres, the Macroom charging point was down, the Copley Street point was down, the two points in Portlaoise were down, the point at junction 14 was down, the point at Kildare was down, the Rathcoole point was down and the Red Cow point was down. That is between the two major population centres. How can that kind of a network be considered adequate?

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