Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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558. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the national electric car network; the number of fast charge points there are here; the number currently not functioning; the approximate average time for repair for a given charge point; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29580/16]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The ESB, through its ecars programme, has been rolling out both publicly accessible charging infrastructure and domestic charge points for electric vehicles. I am advised that almost 900 public charge-points have now been installed nationally including 79 DC fast chargers, most of which have been installed mainly on the inter-urban roads. The location of these charge-points is available on the ‘ecars’ section of the ESB’s website at www.esb.ie.  In addition, I understand that ESB ecars has installed over 1900 charge-points in domestic and commercial premises.

In relation to the number of charge points which are not functioning and the issue of repair times for charge points, these are operational matters for the ESB. While I have no function in this regard, I am asking the ESB to provide a report on these issues, which I will forward to the Deputy.