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

What the Deputy is doing is what I think will be done in the future. Rather than always providing for park and rail, bike and rail has massive potential. In other countries, such as Holland, thousands of bikes are parked outside railway stations daily. The benefit of that includes saving the land that would have been used as a car park to build housing beside the railway station; people are much healthier and fitter; and it is faster, cleaner and cheaper. I do not think Irish Rail, or any other plans to date, have properly taken into account the potential for bike and rail. If we see that as a potential development in every railway station, it would be transformative, as the Deputy is doing, and it would be the future.