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

It will not be viable. The housing will not be put in the right places. There will not be this 15-minute city concept, which we need to develop in Limerick, and we will not connect particularly those communities that were left isolated and without public transport systems, often people who could not afford a car. We need to think of them. There is a social justice issue in this. Public transport belongs to and provides for everyone. A car-based development model, which is unsustainable in environmental terms, is also socially regressive. The cities of the world that think in that direction, even Los Angeles, are tearing up the highways and freeways and starting to put in rail-based solutions because they know that is what makes cities work and what makes cities attractive to live in and prosper in, and we want Limerick to prosper.

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