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

The Deputy is absolutely right. Another example, one the Leas-Cheann Comhairle may be more familiar with, is at Parkmore in Galway. There we have some of the worst traffic gridlock, which is not serving anyone's interests. There have been some very detailed surveys to think fundamentally about how we can change the way people get to the business park, but also how they travel within it. The Deputy is right that innovative solutions are going to be key.

I cannot help noticing a connection with the Deputy's previous question. There is another example that is very local to him, but which is relevant and important. He mentioned schools in Tramore. I had the great pleasure of being there recently and visiting Ardscoil na Mara. It is a fantastic school doing brilliant work and was only recently built, but it was designed around the car and for everyone to drive to it. As the Deputy said, we have got this incredible congestion problem outside the school with air pollution and an unhealthy transport system that does not serve our kids' purposes. We need to look not just at business parks but at how we are building our schools, where we are building them and how we design. That needs to change because they are being built as if they are business parks, that is, with roads around them as if everyone is going to drive to school.

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