Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party)
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1032. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the proposed inclusion for the new electric vehicle charging guidance in the second edition of the TGD 033 School Building Projects and Compliance with Part L of the Building Regulations 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19516/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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My Department produces guidance for School Authorities, and their Design Teams, who are involved in providing new or additional Educational Accommodation. Access to this guidance is provided on my Department’s website which details the Design and Technical Guidance together with the procedures which must be followed where funding is being made available from the Department.

The website was updated in 2020 with regard to guidance for the provision of electric vehicle charging in schools.

This direction and guidance is provided in the Energy Conservation and Mechanical and Electrical Building Services Design Note 202001 July 2020 and details how design teams are to provide EV charging in schools.

This design guidance for EV charging in schools will be consolidated into the next edition of TGD 033 which will be progressed once Building Regulations TGD L 2020 has been published.