Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I visited Google last week at the invitation of the company to talk with them on a number of issues in this area. It was interesting to note that despite the company having 1,600 staff, there were just 20 car parking spaces at its plant, half of which were empty, whereas there were hundreds of bicycles lined up outside. I said to myself — that is the future; that is where we will go as a city and country because that is what the world will want in terms of economic development.

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