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

What I hope this committee will do is build the political support for that because I do not believe it exists at present. The scale of the change we need is so great that the political support needed is also great and we are nowhere near it. The number of cyclists went up last year but it increased by 2.9%. That figure should be rising by 10% or 20%, there is a pent-up demand because the traffic is chaotic, and nobody can say how long it takes to get anywhere because one can run into gridlock at any time. If we made the "safe cycle network", we would be and could be Copenhagen. We should be doing that. That is not an increase of 2% per year, but a jump we need to make. The advantage of that is that the Minister could go into the EU negotiations that will happen in a few weeks' time and have an answer to the 50 million tonnes question, to which we do not have an answer today.

What is the climate emission of the additional measures that were included in the national development plan? What is the total carbon as a result of the new transport projects in Project Ireland 2040?