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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: That is because they have so many EVs.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: It all sounds great but the simple question is what target the Minister will hit by the end of the year. The target set back in 2014 was for 50,000 vehicles to be on the road by 2020. At best, there will be 6,000 or 7,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2020. If the Minister thinks it is worthwhile mentioning that he will hit some notional target for electric vehicles by the end of this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: The target was set in 2014.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: We were not in Government in 2014.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: That is what leadership is about. The Minister cannot be scared.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of electric and hybrid vehicles in the national fleet; the number of electric and hybrid vehicles that have been purchased since January 2017; his annual targets for electric and hybrid vehicle uptake; and his plans to incentivise the uptake of these vehicles. [30143/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I look forward to engaging with the Minister on that aspect at another time, but this question relates to the issue of electric vehicles, EVs.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: What is the Minister waiting for?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: 53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the national broadband plan; the deadline by which 100% of premises will have access to broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30142/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I ask the Minister to update the House on the national broadband plan. What deadline now exists for 100% coverage, in line with the various recommendations and promises made on numerous occasions by this and the previous Government?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for his reply. Those in the 542,000 homes and businesses in rural areas who do not have broadband, who will not have commercial broadband and whose service will not be enhanced by anything the Minister has said with regard to the mobile world want to know when they can expect to see a tender go to the marketplace. What kind of expectation is there in terms of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I cannot believe what I am hearing. Is the Minister living in the real world? He is starting to believe the press releases from commercial operators who, in an effort to get some publicity for the services they are providing, invited him to cut the tape and he is coming in here, believing he had something to do with it. There was supposed to be a national broadband plan that required State...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: The national broadband plan is going nowhere.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: I was talking sense.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: The process started in 2012.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Naughten was part of those Governments.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: Only if one happens to be in the commercial zone.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: He is shadow-boxing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: There is a bit of shadow-boxing.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2017)

Timmy Dooley: There are a few behind the Taoiseach who think he should get out picking the Cabinet.