Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will have to come back to the Deputy directly as I do not have a date. I do not believe the ESB is short of ambition. Its recent new strategic plan includes real ambition in terms of the roll-out of charging points for electric vehicles and, actually, it was one of the first companies to have a national network, so we were ahead of the game on that. This is recognised, and it was commissioned by the London Transport Authority to roll out its network. I do not believe the ESB is lacking but it is important it gets funding and has the ability to invest in this. It is not just the ESB and there is a whole range of other providers across the country, as people with electrical vehicles will know. However, we need to scale it up. Obviously, the supply of electric vehicles at the moment is incredibly tight because of the shortage of chips and supply chain problems coming out of Covid, but that will be resolved some time in the near future. Once that happens, we will see a massive expansion in the roll-out of electric vehicles and our network has to be ready for that. The local authorities have to step up too.

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