Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We need to re-evaluate the carrot approach in order to remove people from larger electric vehicles. The electric equivalent of even the smallest combustion engine car on the market is heavier and that applies in the vast majority of cases. The approach of using existing taxation to help people to purchase a particular car because that is their tax point, as well as the taxation effect that affects the ability of people in the upper echelons to purchase a vehicle, needs to be re-evaluated as the State's means of discouraging people from purchasing larger cars. It needs significant research. It would be premature for us to start talking about those discussions. I stress that I am talking about electric vehicles, not petrol or diesel vehicles.

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