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

We face a very great issue in meeting our climate change targets. Transport is a particular issue. In addition to the planning review to be carried out with the Attorney General's office, which I mentioned earlier, the Government has agreed to establish fast-track teams in a number of key areas. We need to set targets and work programmes for the remaining three years of this Government. One of the key project teams will be working on the area of sustainable mobility. These teams are only starting. The key project for that sustainable mobility team is to look at cities like Galway to see what transport-related emissions are projected for 2030 and what we could do in the next three years to move away from the current completely unsustainable high-carbon model, which will not be tolerable for any modern city seeking to place itself at the forefront of civilisation and where we are going. That sustainable mobility project team will look at the likes of the delivery of the BusConnects projects, the active travel projects and the park-and-ride projects that must integrate together and start to be delivered in that three-year period, although not every element will be completed within that time. We need to make progress. We are not moving fast enough.

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