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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: If Deputy O'Sullivan does not mind, Deputy Whitmore needs to go to another committee. I will go to her and revert back to Deputy O'Sullivan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: Deputy Farrell is joining us from his office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: Thank you, Deputy. Those questions are all for Mr. Martin and his colleagues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: If Dr. O’Grady wants to respond briefly she may do so, although I want to push it along.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Dr. O'Grady. I call Senator Boylan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I ask Mr. Martin of the Department of Transport to respond to the first few questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I am going to push things along now because we have only an hour left and others want to come in. Does Dr. O'Grady or Mr. Martin wish to respond to those points?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I will ask a couple of questions. Sticking with transport, and that Department is getting the bulk of the interrogation today, which I am sure the other Departments are probably happy about, does the remit of the zero emissions vehicles Ireland, ZEVI, office include bikes, such as cargo bikes, trikes and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: It deals with zero emissions vehicles but it is really just electric vehicles or cars.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: Against that it might be argued that electric vehicles are not quite zero emissions vehicles. There is still a residual carbon cost. If we got to 80% renewables use by 2030, which would be brilliant, there would still be 20% of the power for those vehicles coming from fossil fuels. It is not part of the accounting system but we should also consider the embodied emissions associated with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: We could have more of those vehicles on the road.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: If I understand that correctly, there could be more cars and kilometres driven on roads by 2030.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: If you are committed to it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: Are electric vehicles counted as having emissions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: Okay. To stick with carbon counting, the Department is counting electric vehicles as having zero emissions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I have a question regarding the modelling and the gap of 0.9 megatonnes in transport. There was a study earlier this year or late last year by researchers in University College Cork, UCC, showing that nearly 40% of our transport emissions are caused by private car journeys in the 0 km to 8 km range. Many of these are commutes, school runs, trips to the shops, mass and so on. Within that 0...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Lennon. It is about more than the 0.9 megatonnes gap. A lot of the journeys we envisage being made by the 845,000 EVs could be made by even more sustainable modes. The potential in this regard is vast. I am not saying it is necessarily straightforward. We have to build the networks in all our villages, towns and cities in order that people can feel safe getting onto a bike,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Martin. I have a few more questions. Reference was made to EV uptake in a Dublin, with mention of a scheme in Hackney, London. I reiterate Senator Pauline O'Reilly's point that our city centres are where we do not want to see EVs being used, because there are other ways of getting around there. We should not be seeing it as a target or ambition that everybody living in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: We may invite officials from the Department of Finance to discuss that. I thank the witnesses for their answers and apologise to colleagues for taking more than my allocated time.