Written answers

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Electric Vehicles

Photo of Catherine MartinCatherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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506. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to roll out fast-charging infrastructure for electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2575/19]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The majority of the existing publicly accessible electric vehicle infrastructure was rolled out by the ESB through its eCars programme. This network includes 77 fast chargers, mainly on national routes. A map showing the charge points, including the status and availability of the charge points, is available on the ESB's website at www.esb.ie/ecars.

In addition, under the first call for applications from the Climate Action Fund, I approved funding of up to €10 million to a project from ESB eCars that will develop a nationwide, state-of-the-art electric vehicle fast charging network capable of facilitating large-scale electric vehicle uptake over the next decade. Further details on this project, and the other projects approved from the fund, are available on my Department's website at www.dccae.gov.ie.

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