Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The best thing we can do is not go electric. Particularly in urban environments, the best thing we can do is support active transport and public transport, things this Government is doing. Supporting public transport runs into road blocks when we have bigger and bigger cars on the road which are taking up the spaces buses and bikes should be in and contributing to pollution and traffic than people on buses or bikes will. We are supporting public and active transport. Everyone here has been arguing for that in their questions since I came into the Chamber tonight. We need to do more. As well providing support, we need to be looking at the harm that is being caused by more and more vehicles, which are getting larger and larger, on our roads. They are having a serious deleterious effect. They need to be addressed at the same time as all the sustainability, public transport and activity transport work that we are doing and that is welcome.

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