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

The Minister might be interested in looking back on the discussion I had at the education committee this week. We had the forward planning unit of the Department of Education in and I raised the example of Ardscoil na Mara. It is a pretty hostile environment for pedestrians and cyclists. It is set up for vehicular traffic. There is a role for the Minister's Department and the NTA to sit down with the Department of Education and make better planning decisions about how we situate our schools and how we use them as sustainable transport nodes within our local communities.

Returning to the business parks, there are solutions here. We cannot expect a bus route to divert through a business park and spend 40 minutes ferrying people around to the different places. We could look at things like shared mobility solutions. I can see e-scooters within business parks working. We could look at an electric shuttle bus within a business park, perhaps funded or co-funded by the different businesses there. I can seek that working. We should be looking at these as solutions.

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