Dara O'Brien
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Good.
I'm very glad you raised it because you're right.
And that's why I'm bringing forward the private wires legislation.
So private wires will deal with that issue, particularly in multi-unit developments, like in my own estate, whereby you don't have your own driveway in many houses.
And that will deal with that.
That will allow that connection.
And we've done a lot of work through the SEAI on that and looking at what's particularly done in Britain.
I saw RT's report last week on that, and that's going to happen.
But we can't deny the figures either, that the increase in EV registrations is really, really significant.
The areas, though, that we have to look at is particularly around heavy goods vehicles.
So around alternative fuels like HVO.
Of course, absolutely.
But again, to be fair, if you look at agriculture as well, you'll see the projection is a 19% reduction in emissions just right now.
Between 4% and 19%.
Yeah, between 4% and 19%.
So it could be 4%.
Yeah, but look at even the announcement there this week from Kepak with regard to the low-carbon beef, a 32% reduction in beef because production is actually improving because feeds are improving too.
So I'm not trying to sugarcoat this in any way, but across all sectors, you can actually see where there are significant improvements, like home retrofitting.
Like about a quarter of a million homes done already, 73,000 targeted this year.
Like that's 330,000 plus homes, 320,000, 330,000 of 2 million homes in our country.