Pauline O'Reilly (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We should not look at it as shaming. I was not saying it is about shaming. I was saying both things have benefits for people's lives and it has to be seen in that way. Most of us use different forms of transport. If you are in car behind small children cycling, you are putting them under pressure all the time. That makes cycling much more difficult for them the next time they go out on the road. As such, this has a knock-on impact related to climate and safety.

Dr. D'Arcy made an excellent point on communities. In Galway, where I am from, communities are completely blocked off from each other and divided down the middle by roads on which cars are travelling very fast. I ask Mr. Waide to speak about that and the issue of permeability, which probably comes from that. The lack of permeability is probably a knock-on impact of very fast roads. Is the RSA also looking at permeability in these neighbourhoods to ensure everything comes together at once, as I think it must?