Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Paul O'Brien:
We need to understand the process as well. The first part of the process is the constraints study by the relevant county council and its consultants. That is to see if a greenway is feasible. We are suggesting, and it was always our ask, that there should be an inventory of State-owned lands taken at that stage to see how much State, semi-State or council-owned land there is to develop a greenway. We are finding that by the time you get to the second phase, which is the corridor options, and the third phase, which is the preferred route corridors, you could be two years into the process and nobody has had an interaction between the project promoter and individual farmers. We are saying that part of the code is not being implemented as it was envisaged and as it should be.
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