Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I suggest the Minister needs to put a bomb under that unit. It has far too narrow a conception of what shared mobility might offer, by confining itself to these commercial operators. The truth is that 95% of our vehicles lie idle, 95% of the time they are idle, 90% of journeys are single occupant and in a world of modern app technology, surely we can start to exploit that opportunity.

I also put it to the Minister that, in a modern multi-storey residential block it costs €50,000 to put in a car parking space. It would be far better to take out ten car parking spaces in such a unit and provide ten shared electric vehicles. That would be a win-win-win. We need to think more radically than this unit's work programme would suggest.

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