Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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I agree with Mr. Waide. We can have the best guidance documents in the world but we also require implementation at local authority level whereby local authorities ascertain how roads can be altered and the designs required to signal to drivers that certain roads are ones on which they should be going slowly. Many of the interventions do not have to involve major civil engineering works. Build-outs and planters, for example, can be used. It requires losing some road allocation and parking spaces. I am not sure we have the resources and get-up-and-go at local authority level to knock on doors to say we are going to make a street a safer, nicer civil place, including for children and grandparents, and that it will require the removal of a couple of parking spaces. We can develop really good guidance but I have concerns about applying it. I see Dr. D'Arcy has her hand up.