Mr. Brendan O'Brien:

The question relates to on-street parking and whether we considered removing some of it. Throughout the city centre, road space is at a premium. The dublinbikes scheme resulted in removal of some on-street parking and the various iterations of Luas have removed much on-street parking. On the quays and from Capel Street bridge onwards, as part of our planned cycling infrastructure - the Liffey cycle route - we will be removing substantial amounts of car parking along the quay wall. We will replace that with a segregated two-way cycle track along the quays. We must always have the balance between the needs of people in the city, commercial needs and the road space itself. Normally, on-street parking is a case of having it where we can fit it in or where there is a real residential necessity. The encouragement of people to live in the city centre has been successful in the past number of years, as that number has grown. Far more of the parking on the quays will be removed and given over to transportation.