Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There will be a series of developments in this area. As the Deputy will be aware, we are seeking to make a significant switch from road spending to public transport funding. We set out the broad outline of the budgets during budget time, which sees a major positioning of new investments for projects such as the greenway investment announced yesterday. Today in County Waterford, we announced the development of a significant sustainable transport infrastructure which will lead to transport-led development.

There is a series of other initiatives which will look at investment using the EU recovery fund. Investment will not just be by way of the budget. It is on the EU recovery fund that the first focus will be in terms of what additional funding we can get, particularly for balanced regional development outside Dublin, which will go towards the sorts of announcements we made in Waterford earlier today and in respect of the greenways yesterday. I hope this sort of funding will make a real difference in Kerry and every other county. My focus, first and foremost, is on getting those sustainable transport projects agreed.

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