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

It must have been updated further. Either way, the point is that we have been talking about this for a long time. It is not an easy one. It is very sensitive. In many cases, people were locked into certain transport systems because of 50 or 60 years of car-dependent planning. We need that to change. It is about a combination of measures and not any one. We want to avoid punitive measures, pointing fingers, blaming people or pricing them out of things. It is about reallocating space, including car-parking space and road space, so that the alternatives become cheaper, quicker and preferable. We need to get into a virtuous circle rather than where we have gone in the past 40 or 50 years whereby, because everything was designed around people having and driving cars, there is gridlock that will not work for anyone. We saw during the pandemic that we could change things. We showed that work patterns can change. Having promised something for 20 years, this is the opportunity to do it.

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