Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is no reason for that to mean stopping at the entrance to every boreen. Active travel linking to a public transport system would mean a commuter might travel 1 km or 2 km by active travel to a town where services would be provided under an every village, every hour model. It happens all over the world. The Chairman said that the cost would be prohibitive. The cost is a different kind of investment. We give €600 million every year in subsidies for jet kerosene for aeroplanes. If we took €100 million or €200 million of that subsidy-----

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