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

We are working on it. As I said, I met the industry representatives of the Irish Road Haulage Association during the week and we are looking at a whole variety of different options. First and foremost, we need real solid data on the fleet of vehicles here and what the real emissions reductions would be from various measures. That is something we both agreed that we need to do much further work on.

Going back to what I said, European legislation guides and regulates everything in this energy transformation area. The European Union stated it will move away from rebate schemes for any fossil fuel vehicles, even at the Euro 6 level, which are more efficient and have lower emissions standards. The regulations are moving away from that.

The Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and I said that we will continue to work with the association to look to see what other ways we can help people through a difficult time and also make sure that sector contributes, like every other sector, to our climate targets.

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