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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Dr. Damien Ó Tuama: The biggest intervention is the creation of safe cycle networks in urban and rural areas for people using bikes, be they ordinary bikes, e-bikes or cargo bikes. That is the number one thing. It is safety and the perception of safety that puts most people off cycling. The other is distance. That is where e-bikes come in. They make things much handier. It can make an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Dr. Damien Ó Tuama: The cycle to work scheme provides for up to €1,500 of the value of an e-bike. For a high quality e-cargo bike, a figure of double that would be more realistic. I refer again to the scrappage scheme in France, where drivers are encouraged to scrap a car and get a grant towards the purchase of an e-cargo bike.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Dr. Damien Ó Tuama: Good afternoon Chairman and members of the committee. My name is Damien Ó Tuama. I am the national cycling co-ordinator with Cyclist.ie, the Irish cycling advocacy network and with An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland. Cyclist.ie is part of the European Cyclists Federation, which advocates at a European level. The discourse around e-mobility and electric...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Dr. Damien Ó Tuama: In countries like Germany and the Netherlands, e-bike sales would be approaching 40% to 50% of all bike sales at this moment - they have really shot up. The big advantage is that it is enabling older people in particular to extend their cycling lives and enabling people to cycle longer distances and cycle in hillier places. The advantages are multiple. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Dr. Colm Byrne: People on social welfare do not get to benefit from the cycle to work scheme because it is an employer's scheme. There needs to be some sort of change to get those people into the net. Lower earners do not get to benefit to the full extent because they only get a 30% rebate instead of a 50% rebate. If we are serious about trying to transition away from the internal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Dr. Damien Ó Tuama: There is a rich cycling culture in Clonakilty with the festival and bike circus. Cyclist.ie has a vision for cycling in rural Ireland that is all about people on bikes being expected and respected on the roads, with lower, safer speed limits, infrastructure, signed cycling routes, and many other things that can be done to nurture a local cycling culture, especially for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Dr. Colm Byrne: I thank members for the opportunity to address the committee on this important issue. I am a consultant geriatrician and general physician working with the frailty intervention team in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. I am here today representing Irish Doctors for Environment. Irish Doctors for Environment is a non-governmental agency and registered charity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Alan Farrell: I thank the witnesses. I want to focus on cost and infrastructure, and a little on alternatives. The first point, which others have made, is the disparity between the cost of an internal combustion engine vehicle at the starting point in the market and the entry level electric vehicle. It is €11,000 or €12,000 for the cheapest internal combustion engine car, which is a Dacia....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Electric Vehicles: Discussion (30 Nov 2021)

Dr. Colm Byrne: I know from having worked there that it is the same. We are not saying people should not buy cars but that families may not need a second car because they will not be making the short trips by car. Longer trips will still be made by car but the shorter trips may be by bike. That is what we are saying. We also need to examine our planning decisions. We must ask what...