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

Often the hardest thing to change is VAT. VAT rates are not easily adjusted or changed. The Minister for Finance rightly protects that because it is often seen as such an easy solution to every problem. My experience is that VAT rate reduction is not the easiest one to get over the line and it is not centre stage in the plans. The key thing for active travel is safe space. That is what is holding people back from taking to bikes in even greater numbers.