Pauline O'Reilly (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that. It is good to hear the RSA is pushing this measure. We need to take a leap on this but what we are finding is that on a local authority level, those leaps are not happening. For instance, the Salthill cycle lane was voted down, which goes back to the matter of a lack of segregation and lack of safety for people. Perhaps the question for everyone is what more we can do to bring the public on board. Some of the questions asked earlier by one of the members pointed to the fact that some politicians may be worried that the public will not be on board. I do not think that is true. What more can we do to ensure everybody understands this is an imperative for safety but also for climate? We saw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, report released yesterday that half of the world's population is now impacted by climate change.