John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Okay. As it is not in the briefing note I got, the Minister of State might come back to that in his answer. As a constituency TD, most of the complaints and requests I get for traffic-calming measures are for within residential estates, which means it is the residents in those estates who are speeding. It seems to be impossible for the Garda. I have never seen gardaí police speeding in a housing estate. I have seen them on secondary and primary roads but there seems to be no mechanism to police estates or even to send a note around saying they have had complaints. It is a soft form of policing but could be effective.

I welcome the changes in the speed limits. Parts of my constituency are rural and residents say speed limits on some sections of rural road are higher than on the N81. Hopefully this will address that.

I echo what a previous Deputy said on the NTA. One of the issues with the NTA is its BusConnects section does not communicate with its cycle track section. That does not seem to be happening. Many cycle track measures in my constituency penalise those who use public transport because they have narrowed the road so much traffic is impeded and it does not allow for bus corridors that could work particularly effectively in some locations.

The Minister of State referred to roads in built-up areas. Does Dublin constitute a whole metropolitan built-up area?

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