Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of trebling the number of publicly available charging points, based on the average cost to date, if future projections are not available. [10431/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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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 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 initially which is the approach we are taking to EV charging roll-out.

We have set aside €40.5m this year towards infrastructure delivery, and the National Development Plan includes €100m. The National Development Plan review will be an opportunity to review the level of funding required to deliver the EU mandated requirements for public charging.