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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: Yes. Do Ms Cahill or Dr. Rock have a view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: Would it be a European norm that outside the capital city 95% of women would consider a car to be a necessity or are we an outlier in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: Okay. It is an incredible figure. It jumps off the page at me straight away.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: I wonder how we address car dependency and the climate issues associated with a figure like that. I will move on. The research on women and cycling was talked about and I am delighted to see more research coming from this. We have really damaged children's independence in the way we have designed our streets and in that car dependency again. We have also put this huge stressful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Ms Cahill. I might direct the question to Ms Fox as well in her role as a landscape architect. Let us consider the local authorities. It might sound like I am having a go at engineers here. Engineers are great. They are great at building things and getting the technical compliance and the functionality of something. However, I wonder if we have enough urban designers, transport...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Dr. Rock but I must allow time for Dr. Leva to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: In the international context, unattended stations and driver-only-operated transport systems developed as cost rationalisations by public transport companies to reduces the wages bill. Are they the norm throughout European rail and train systems, railway stations and light-rail systems, or are they starting to reverse that trend because of the benefits of doing so? More people might be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: Have drivers been redeployed to attend stations or what is the trend? Are the stations unattended also? The transport mode is unattended and autonomous and the stations are vacant as well. Is that the trend throughout Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Dr. Leva.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: I have a suggestion. I do not know if our witnesses can hear but I refer to the CSO survey and the NTA survey. They are the experts and we should try to engage them to see what others should be included in another survey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: That was Senator Boylan's suggestion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: Will the Senator give us a synopsis of the book?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: We are still in public session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: I ask we engage with the CSO and NTA surveys to see what information should go into those surveys to get the data we need.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: There is one other question we could ask them as well. I wonder if the mobility of care journeys could be broken down to show what is the primary such journey. I would like to know how they break down those journeys.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: They describe mobility of care journeys as the journeys women are making to bring the children to school or wherever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: That relates to the adaptability and functionality of public transport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: That is reported in the Diamond survey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Steven Matthews: No, but it would be interesting to know because if we are going to adapt public transport we need to know what the primary mobility of care journeys are, for the adaptability of it.