Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of trebling the number of publicly available charging points, based on the average cost to date, if future projections are not available. [43768/24]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Government is fully committed to supporting a significant expansion and modernisation of the EV charging network over the coming years and reaching climate targets.

Reaching our 2025 targets for public charging will be facilitated by a mix of public funds and private sector investment and will feature a mix of different charging types, such as AC type on-street charging and DC type destination and en-route charging and as such the amount which will be delivered is difficult to ascertain. The likely percentage of private vs public delivery is unclear but an accelerated early delivery against EU mandated targets (2024 to 2026/2027) will likely need a significant proportion of public funding. Estimating a 75/25% split between public and private sector investment, the public cost could be in the region of €110m to treble the power output of publicly accessible infrastructure.

This could significantly reduce if the private sector increases roll out of EV charging infrastructure or invests a greater percentage into projects run by Local Authorities and the State.