Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion.
Ms Colette Murphy:
Some campuses have implemented bike clinics as part of their green campus initiative. Essentially, a bike can get serviced or maintained. The gardaí can come in and write the number on the bike as well, so if it goes missing or gets stolen, it is identifiable. It is done for free in some third level institutions. I know DCU is very good at it and has one every week during semester time. It is quite popular with students and staff. At the end of the day, just getting more people cycling to college is the first thing. There will be more uptake from that.
In terms of the policy development of the cycle to college scheme, there has not really been any uptake from anyone on it.