Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not given to despair but in 2005 we put the development of park-and-ride services in the east and west sides of the city as an objective in the city development plan. Here we are in 2021. The people were way ahead of us as they were in the request for light rail when they signed 24,000 signatures. They are way ahead of us on climate change. I am asking the Minister, and as a new Minister because I failed with the last Minister, and he acknowledged there was a failure, what knowledge he has of the progress being made in identifying park-and-ride sites in Galway city as a means of alleviating traffic congestion, given that it has been in the development plan since 2005. Is he satisfied with the lack of progress given the ambitions we have and the obligations we have under climate change legislation to reduce our emissions?

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