Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I wonder how we address car dependency and the climate issues associated with a figure like that.

I will move on. The research on women and cycling was talked about and I am delighted to see more research coming from this. We have really damaged children's independence in the way we have designed our streets and in that car dependency again. We have also put this huge stressful requirement on parents to drive their children everywhere because we have made streets dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists and people who wish to walk. It is about the dominance of cars again. On the research being done on women and cycling, the Road Safety Authority, RSA, was in with us last week and the representatives talked about their strategy at the moment. They have a 50-point plan. Do our guests think the gender lens is being applied to that plan? Is it applied to, say, a review of a national cycle manual and is it being applied to looking again at the Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets, DMURS, as well because these all feed into each other? Is the gender lens being applied sufficiently? Are the learnings from this TII report being taken into those three main strategies?