Paddy Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I compliment An Post on its decision to go all electric with its postal delivery fleet throughout the country by 2022. By 2020, electrification will be extended to the cities of Cork, Galway, Limerick, Kilkenny and Waterford. This is a great decision by the company. By the end of 2019, Dublin city postal deliveries will be all be made by electric vehicles and electric bicycles. I also compliment the Houses of the Oireachtas Service on having two charging points in the grounds of Leinster House for electric vehicles. Those can also be used by An Post. The company has made a great decision and the Leader, at some stage, might invite the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, to the House for a discussion to determine where we are at and where we are going with electric vehicles. We might also discuss the incentives available to households. We could have a good debate on those issues. I see a problem down the line, however, for the financing of major industries and industrial projects. Green finance will be the way forward. The greener a project, the easier it will be to secure funding in future. Dirty industrial projects will probably find it harder to secure finance as well. Those are all areas on which we could have a good discussion with the Minister in the near future.