Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is not a problem, Chairman. I thank everyone for coming today and for speaking to us. I have a couple of questions. As was just outlined, we conducted a survey on sustainable transport in my constituency of Cork North-Central. The survey found that 74% of people felt that it was not safe to cycle in our constituency. It also found that 64% of people noticed that the cycle lanes ended abruptly and suddenly.

Two key issues arose from this and perhaps Mr. Donovan from the Cork Cycling Campaign might like to comment. I first thank him and his associates for supporting the survey but I would like to ask him about the issue where Cork is divided. There is a great difference between the northside and the southside in the number of cycle lanes, and there is a great discrepancy. For anyone who wishes to cycle on the northside, where I am from, it feels that there is underinvestment and not enough funding being put in.

The other important issue is on cycle lanes and routes.

What people are telling me is that they want to see specific cycle routes so that they can travel to work, school and college. Mr. Donovan spoke earlier about fewer and fewer people using cycle lanes, especially young women and girls going to school, college or wherever. What are he key factors in fixing these issues? I will come back in if I have more time.