Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I hate to disagree with my more learned colleagues on this subject, but I know a little about it too.

We need to be careful not to scare people away from the remedy to our issue, the emissions. The way to do it is by electric vehicles. Whether the car is large or small, it needs its space on the road. More importantly, at the present time we need to encourage car users and owners to move in that direction in the knowledge that we are doing something to reduce emissions and doing it now.

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