Gavin Lawlor

So that's not as straightforward as it sounds.

It's a great idea.

It works very effectively, but there's a lot of work that needs to be done to essentially put in the infrastructure to facilitate that.

The same is true of putting the charges on the lampposts.

You need fibre optics, you need the swipe cards, you know, there's a cost to that.

So it's a case of who pays for that.

Is that ESB or one of the other energy providers or is it the homeowner themselves or is it a group of homeowners together or is it the council?

It is.

And unfortunately people get frustrated and then end up taking the law into their own hands, so to speak, and next end up going and doing this and have done this in, in a number of locations in both suburban and in urban areas in city center, where they've actually felt they got so frustrated by it.

They've come up with their own solutions, um, in terms of, uh, cable covers, et cetera, to, to allow them to use their electric cars, because it is, I think it is a little bit of a, um, uh, contradiction that we're saying.

please, please, please move from ice or internal combustion engine cars to electric cars.

And then people, homeowners aren't able in a position to actually benefit from that transition because it is a lot cheaper to run an electric car in a city environment than it is a petrol driven car.

But that's only the case if you're able to charge it on your own home electricity.

If you're doing so off public chargers, it gets a lot more expensive.

Not specifically but I do know that this is something that is a live issue both in the Department of Transport and the Department of Housing so

It's another one on their list of many issues that they have to resolve.

So I am aware that it is something that is being looked at.

Whether or not we see significant progress in the short term, I don't know.

Thanks very much, Clare.

The simple answer in terms of the widening of the entrance is no.