Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The reality is that, 20 years ago, the Green Party told everybody to buy diesel, that it was the energy of the future. The Green Party said that was the science. The science suddenly changed to buying electric. Now we are in a position where people bought electric but there is no infrastructure to support it. The electric cars are now coming from China at half the cost and are built with coal-fuelled energy. The Minister talks about suspicion.

There is a delusion in this country that we are going to take the cleanest diesel engines from trucks with euro 6 engines and put them on freight trains that are not even euro 1.

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