John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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452. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the number of EV charging points installed across Wicklow in 2020-2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42072/25]

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 electric vehicle (EV) charging network over the coming years. Having an effective and reliable charging network is an essential part of enabling drivers to make the switch to electric vehicles.

Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland (ZEVI), a dedicated Office which oversees and accelerates Ireland’s transition to zero emission vehicles, has significant funding available in 2024 for the installation of EV charging across Ireland.

The number of publicly accessible charge points in Ireland increased from 1,700 in September 2022 to approximately 2,400 in 2024. In order to achieve Ireland’s EU targets under the Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR), it is expected that there will be 3,200 – 6,210 public chargers required nationally, depending on the level of power supplied at each.

The Department of Transport does not at present maintain counts of available publicly accessible EV charging stations in specific regions, however ZEVI are developing a Data Strategy which, when implemented, will give the Department improved visibility on this.

The system will enable the collection of data from charge-points in near real time and provide it on an Open Data basis. The obligation on charge-point operators and owners to share this data is legislated for in the EU Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Regulation.

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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453. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of electric cars sold in 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42073/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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Providing a sustainable, low-carbon transport system is a key priority of the Department. Within the Climate Action Plan (CAP), fleet electrification is one of the two single biggest mitigation actions for domestic sectors and will provide the greatest share of transport emissions abatement to 2030.

The Department tracks progress towards the ambitious target to have 30% of the vehicle fleet electrified by 2030 through reports provided by the National Vehicle and Driver File. These contain the number of EV registered on Irish roads, including Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs).

There are 179,187 electric vehicles under current taxation on Irish roads (as of end of June 2025). To note: the numbers in brackets below illustrate yearly increases.