Motor Industry
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-07
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Richard O'Donoghue (IND), Limerick County

I will go back to my point again. If you buy an electric vehicle at the moment, you are buying at a loss because you cannot change it.
The Government's decision not to proceed with a ban on fossil fuel car sales from 2030 has been criticised by the Irish Electric Vehicle Owners Association. I wonder why that would be. I could not believe the Government was even more zealous than the EU, which stated it could not bring in the ban in 2030 but had to wait until 2035 due to a breach of competition rules. The Government, however, decided to force the sale of fossil fuel vehicles to stop in 2030. The EU has told the Government it cannot do so until 2035 because of competition rules, yet it is forcing the ban down the throats of people here who can only barely afford to keep the cars they have on the road.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-07