On today’s Inside Politics podcast Pat Leahy interviews Fianna Fáil’s Darragh O’Brien about major issues related to his twin ministries, Transport and Climate, Energy and the Environment.

Hugh and Pat listen back to the interview and discuss what O’Brien had to say about a new scrappage scheme to encourage the purchase of EVs, Ireland’s certain failure to hit its legally-binding emissions targets in 2030 and the financial cost to the state of that failure.

They also discuss the State’s strategy on energy-hungry data centres and the future of Fianna Fail’s leadership after a disappointing showing in the recent byelections.