Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Second, I thank the Deputy for his support. He knows that yesterday Ireland led a campaign at the Council of Ministers to try to agree a far more ambitious set of emissions targets for the transport sector, both in terms of cars and light vehicles. Disappointingly, we could not convince our European colleagues to do that because of the influence of the motor industry across Europe. Ireland led a coalition of four member states and we hope to see progress made in trilogue over the next few weeks in terms of increasing the ambition in that area.

I agree that we need to improve the network of electric vehicle charging points across the country in terms of maintenance, speed and capacity.

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