Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I see what the Minister of State means. The strategy that I suggested should be put in is covered by section 42, which is more detailed than what has just been highlighted.

I will move to amendment No. 481, which is to do with the review of a development plan, or an interim report on the implementation of a development plan. My suggestion is, as part of that review, that "an outline of progress on transport-oriented development, [which we will come back to] and the integration of the hierarchy of road users model, transport patters [there is a spelling mistake in the amendment; it should read "transport patterns"] and modal shift to sustainable transport modes" be included. We are setting out these strategies for sustainable development, for active travel networks, and for accessibility, permeability, walkability and all those things. We will then have an interim review of a development plan, but we do not seem to have included an assessment of how our transport patterns evolve after the plan commences and the modal shift required in order to reduce our transport emissions. It would be very sensible, as part of the interim review of the plan, to include an assessment on how our transport strategies are operating. I imagine it will be found they are going in the wrong direction.