Dr. Damien Ó Tuama:

The biggest negative health impact we are seeing at the moment as a result of so few people, and so few women, cycling is the issue of obesity. One in four children in Ireland is either obese or overweight, and some six out of ten adults. This is building up a huge long-term public health problem which will express itself in the public health system in the decades to come. These are not separate realms. Public health is intimately intertwined with our transportation policy and that is not really recognised in how funding is allocated at the moment.