Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I agree. Public transport, be it a local bus service or, ideally, cycling and active travel to get people to the train station, is the way to go. I do not like to see big park-and-ride facilities and I am certainly not promoting that in this case but the reality is that, on the Kinsealy side of Portmarnock especially, none of the Fingal County Council plans is going to provide safe levels of access, so a degree of car parking provision will always be needed at a train station like Portmarnock. That is not to say we want a large park-and-ride facility to be created. Those who live in Portmarnock want to get the bus and to be able to cycle safely to the train station. They are not able to do that at the moment and there is concern that with the plans that are coming forward, they probably will not be able to do that in the future as easily as they should. We must take a look at the future bus provision and improve the cycle network on what in many ways are old country roads which now have a large town built around them. There are a lot of positive initiatives going on and I hope we can improve the situation as the planning applications are made.

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