Dr. Damien Ó Tuama:

Deputy Devlin made a very good point on bike share schemes, of which we have three in Dublin. The future needs to involve seamless integration between public, private and public private partnership, PPP, share schemes. It is ultimately about a move to seeing mobility as a service. I have used car share schemes. People may not necessarily want to buy a depreciating asset that is sitting on their driveway for a large chunk of the day, but they certainly want to be able to drive some of their journeys. We hope that is what the future is going to involve, namely, public transport for longer trips and shared mobility, whether of car, bicycle or e-bike, for the other trips. There is a need for a much larger number of electric bike charging points in all public buildings, new apartment blocks and public transport access points, both bus and train. I completely agree with the Deputy that we need much more integration, and it would be great if the committee could support that vision.