Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

One of the negative responses to greenways is that we often get a tarmac strip. I know it is standard for them to be 3 m or 5 m. Are we open to using materials that are more sympathetic to the environment? It does not necessarily need to be tarmac. They are not taking heavy-weight traffic. There may be high volumes, but they are not heavy weights. Where we have pinch points in sensitive locations can we have that flexibility so that it does not need to be 3 m at that point? We can pull it into 2 m and people need to be a bit more careful and courteous to each other as they meet.