Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding spent and number of cars covered by the electric vehicle purchase grant in each year since its creation by month, by hybrid cars, plug hybrid cars and fully electric vehicles to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39996/19]

Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual expenditure on the electric and hybrid vehicle scheme since its inception; and the number of each class of vehicle that has been granted a subsidy in each year in tabular form. [40001/19]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 201 and 202 together.

The electric vehicle purchase grant, introduced in April 2011, provides grant aid of up to €5,000 towards the purchase of a new battery electric vehicle or new plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. The scheme does not support the purchase of standard hybrid vehicles.

From the introduction of the scheme to date, grant support has been provided for the purchase of a total of almost 8,400 new vehicles to the value of nearly €39 million. Approximately two-thirds of the grants have been provided to battery electric vehicles with the remaining one-third to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

SEAI, who operate the grant, have provided detail of the number of grants paid in each month and the annual spend since the scheme commenced. This is set out in the following table.

I have also requested the SEAI to follow up with the Deputies to provide further detail as requested in their questions.