Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will flip the first point on great places that people want to visit and turn it the other way. I always argue this about greenways and active travel systems because people argue that greenways are for tourists or leisure and I say no, greenways are for locals. They are for getting to school, the shop or the pub at night. If you do that, tourists will come because they want to meet local people and be part of a community and have a sense of connection. Our tourism, and I was involved in it, is about the welcome and not about creating a kind of Disneyland experience.

It has to be real. I agree with the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach that if places are nicer to visit, they tend to be better but you create it for local people and then you make somewhere that is nicer to visit.

With regard to the school bus system, as I said, we have just come out of a process with the Department of Education on reviewing it. The issue about whether it should be in the Department of Education or the Department of Transport might be what could be called a manifesto issue at this stage. We are all going to set out our views on that in the context of programme for Government manifestos. I would be very surprised if the Green Party manifesto did not say that it should be in the Department of Transport but it is not going to change in the lifetime of this Government. It is up to the next government as to whether that should happen.