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Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 December 2018

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Questions (472)

Róisín Shortall

Question:

472. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of public electric vehicle charging points in each local authority area or county. [53821/18]

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The majority of the existing network of publicly accessible charge points was rolled out by the ESB through its eCars programme. A real-time map showing the charge points, including the status and availability of the charge points, is available on the ESB's website at www.esb.ie/ecars. The management of these charge points is an operational matter for the ESB.

The following table, provided to my Department by ESB eCars, sets out in tabular form the number of current publically available standard charge points and fast chargers available in each county. It should be noted that this list is limited to ESB eCars public charge points and may not include any installations on private sites such as hotels or chargers installed by other entities. For example, Tesla has multiple fast chargers installed at three locations in Louth, Laois and Tipperary which are not included.

Last month, I announced the successful projects under the first Call for Applications from the Climate Action Fund. I approved funding of up to €10 million to a project from ESB eCars that will develop a nationwide, state-of-the-art electric vehicle fast charging network capable of facilitating large-scale electric vehicle uptake over the next decade. Further details on this project, and the other projects approved from the fund, are available on my Department's website at www.dccae.gov.ie.

County

No of on-street/public points

No of fast stations

Donegal

26

3

Sligo

10

1

Leitrim

6

1

Mayo

20

2

Westmeath

20

3

Roscommon

16

1

Galway

28

4

Monaghan

10

1

Cavan

10

0

Longford

10

1

Meath

22

2

Louth

24

3

Dublin

160

18

Kildare

28

4

Offaly

14

0

Laois

16

2

Wicklow

26

3

Carlow

12

1

Wexford

26

4

Kilkenny

14

3

Tipperary

18

4

Waterford

24

2

Clare

16

2

Limerick

26

4

Cork

58

7

Kerry

28

1

Total

668

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