Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein)
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654. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost to increase the grant for electric vehicles in each of the band amounts by €1,000, €2,000 and €3,000, in tabular form. [32991/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I refer the Deputy to the reply to Question No. 497 of 4 July 2017.

That reply stated that 638 Electric Vehicles (EVs) were supported under the EV Grant Scheme in 2016. On that basis, it is estimated that increasing each grant by €1,000 per vehicle, for the same number of vehicles, would cost an extra €638,000 while increasing each grant by €2,000 would cost an additional €1.276 million. Increasing each grant by €3,000 would add an estimated €1.914 million to the total spend under the scheme.

Since the beginning of 2017, almost €2.2 million has been spent to support the purchase of 456 new electric vehicles, and my Department expects a similar number of EVs to be grant aided for the remainder of this year. Therefore, using an estimate of 900 EVs supported for the full year at a cost of 4.3 million, the three scenarios would add €0.9 million, €1.8 million and €2.7 million, respectively to the cost of the scheme.

The projected cost of the three scenarios outlined in 2016 and 2017 are set out in the following table.