Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Two weeks ago, a car crashed through a wall outside St. Paul's National School in Limerick. Thankfully, this happened a few minutes before the school finished for the day and no children were injured. We are seeing motorist behaviour outside schools throughout the country that is putting children at risk. Parents do not believe it is safe to let their children walk or cycle to school and as such it is compounding problem and a vicious cycle. We can break the vicious cycle through the safe routes to school programme. The challenge is the implementation, delivery and roll-out of this programme as quickly as possible. If it is rolled out quickly, we will create better towns, cities and villages. It is imperative that we get children walking and cycling to school. I ask the Tánaiste to set out what can be done to expedite the safe routes to school programme.

See this speech in context