Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I respect that view. The Chairman mentioned that our cities are old and there are bottlenecks so one cannot facilitate cyclists. When I cycle to work in Leinster House I feel the most safe when I cycle on the cycle lane around St. Stephen's Green because it is much wider than elsewhere. The city of Brussels in Belgium has contraflow cycle lanes all over the place. I feel their conversations are probably moving towards air quality and having completely separate roads. For a cyclist the quality of air on the streets is as bad as if one drives a car and one inhales those fumes through the vents and windows of one's car. If one chooses to cycle one should be protected from fumes as well. That is where the conversation here should be but we do not even have dedicated cycle lanes or contraflow cycle lanes. We need to focus minds on that front.