Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No, they would be shared. Obviously, engineering works would be required for shared roads if one is trying to promote them as cycle routes, such as ensuring ditches are lowered for increased visibility. These are really quiet roads that might be travelled by one tractor and two cars in a day. Obviously, one would have to market them responsibly as priority cycle routes. One could not let children out on roads that are too busy but there are so many of these roads around the country that any rural Deputy could identify a network of links to get from A to B through towns along these roads and do it in a much cheaper manner. This would be where one does not have a greenway option or an old railway route or canal bank. Council engineers around the country would have local knowledge of where this could be done very cheaply. It should be explored, or at least the local authorities could be invited to come forward with such routes. They could be brought forward very quickly and relatively cheaply. It might be something worth exploring.