Dr. Brian Caulfield:

If I might respond on the electric buses, it is a bit outside electric vehicles, but my experience from looking at international research on trips to school is all about educating our kids around how they travel to school, more education on cycling and making that safer. The electric bus is a great idea but you would also have to look at it from a carbon budget perspective.

Congestion is estimated by the amount of time we are sitting in our cars when they should be running at a particular speed to get to wherever we are, not only cars but also public transport. The TomTom congestion index showed that in Dublin we spend the same amount of time in congestion in a year as it would have taken to watch every single match in the Euro 2020 championship twice this summer.