Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I was tickled to hear my own school, Glór na Mara in Tramore, listed among the Minister's exemplars. It is the school I taught in and the one my children attend. The programme has been very successful although it has received pushback. I am delighted to hear Deputy O'Rourke's enthusiasm for school street projects. I very much hope that he is communicating that enthusiasm to his party's local representatives on the ground. However, while the front of schools is becoming much safer with school street projects and the safe routes to school programme, we have to think about schools as active transport nodes and make sure that the routes that radiate from them are safe to travel. The area in front of Glór na Mara National School is exceptionally safe at school drop-off and pick-up times but the approaches on Priest's Road and the Ring Road are not necessarily as safe. We need to broaden our conception of what it means to get kids to our schools using active transport.

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