Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not know of any examples. It is not something that I saw elsewhere. I just think that some people, before they go off and spend €300 or €400 on a bike, would like to try it out. When they actually try it a lot of them will realise that it is fine, that it gets them from A to B more quickly than the car and that it does not rain as much here as we think it does. Children would get the independence of not having to worry if their parents are late picking them up or dropping them off and so on. When I was in school, a lot more students cycled than do now. If we could get more bikes in circulation and encourage a culture of people using bikes and feeling comfortable doing so, it would help enormously. I was in the Hague just before Covid and I hardly saw any cars at all but we were shown photographs of the city in the 1970s and the 1980s and it was full of cars.