Dáil debates
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Questions on Promised Legislation
1:30 pm
Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The greenways, rural walking and cycleways provide a great opportunity for rural communities in bringing tourism and income into areas. The programme for Government gives a commitment to double funding and advance the rural walks scheme. The Ó Suilleabháin Beara walk from west Cork to Leitrim was already developed and landowners are maintaining it. It is working. However, there is a group in the middle, in the Muskerry area, which is locked out. The scheme was closed while it was developing its walkway. Landowners to their north and west are able to access the scheme but these people are locked out. Other communities also wish to bring tourism into their areas by reusing abandoned railways and so on. What will happen in respect of re-opening these schemes for rural walks and when will it happen?
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