Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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425. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated number of electric and hybrid vehicle registrations that will take place each year up to 2023, by vehicle type. [51010/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The Government is committed to facilitating the increased uptake of low emitting vehicles (LEVs).  It is Ireland’s ambition that all new cars and vans sold in this country from 2030 will be zero emission (or zero emission-capable) and my Department’s long-term vision for the decarbonisation of the transport sector will encompass the electrification of the passenger car fleet.

In May of this year I published the National Policy Framework for Alternative Fuels Infrastructure for Transport in Ireland (NPF) (link is external). My Department, together with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE), developed the NPF to support the deployment of alternative fuels for transport in Ireland arising from obligations associated with Directive 2014/94/EU (link is external) and assist in removing any barriers that exist towards greater uptake of low emissions vehicles (LEVs). Included in this framework was an indicative forecast of the numbers of alternative fuelled vehicles that could be circulating at particular milestones up to 2030 based on a policy ambition that all new cars sold in Ireland post-2030 will be zero emissions or zero emissions capable. These are the published projections.