Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

As difficult is the current scenario is, I would hate for us to move in a direction where cycling was banned in the city centre. That would be a disaster for the city on so many fronts. We should aim to triple those numbers again. There should be 3,000, 4,000 or 5,000 cyclists in the area if we go for it. There must be engineering solutions where, for example, cyclists coming from O'Connell Street could go down Westmoreland Street without the crossover manoeuvre where they go up Dame Street on the two-way cycle track through College Green. I would be concerned if the message coming out of this is that the solution to this is to ban cycling in Dublin.