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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Active Travel (5 Mar 2024)

Patrick Costello: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications under the cycle-to-work scheme in 2023 and to date in 2024; if he will provide a breakdown between the number of bicycles, pedelecs, e-bikes and e-cargo bikes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10486/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Active Travel (5 Mar 2024)

Patrick Costello: 226. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on expanding the reach of the bike-to-work scheme beyond PAYE workers to everyone, including employers, sole traders, students, jobseekers, disabled, unpaid home-work and the retired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10487/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Transport Policy (22 Mar 2023)

Patrick Costello: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications under the cycle-to-work scheme in 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will provide a breakdown between the number of bicycles, pedelecs, e-bikes, and e-cargo bikes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Transport Policy (22 Mar 2023)

Patrick Costello: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on expanding the reach of the bike-to-work scheme to beyond PAYE to everyone employers, sole-traders, students, jobseekers, disabled, unpaid home-work and the retired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14059/23]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)

Patrick Costello: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I apologise for running in and out of the meeting. The unfortunate nature of this place is that we all have to be in two or three places at once. The Joint Committee on Justice is meeting in a different room and I have to run between the two. I am also supposed to be somewhere else for a third meeting, so I apologise for running in and out. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (14 Jun 2022)

Patrick Costello: ...not go electric. Particularly in urban environments, the best thing we can do is support active transport and public transport, things this Government is doing. Supporting public transport runs into road blocks when we have bigger and bigger cars on the road which are taking up the spaces buses and bikes should be in and contributing to pollution and traffic than people on buses or bikes...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: It is Bike Week. Can we expand the bike to work scheme to people who are not PAYE workers, to the self-employed, the unemployed, pensioners and students? A shift to a subsidy- or voucher-based scheme would bring in many people who currently are not eligible for it and it would be a very good thing to announce during Bike Week.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Legislation (23 Sep 2020)

Patrick Costello: I raise the issue of the regulation of quad bikes and scramblers after a young toddler ended up in hospital as a result of a crash between a quad bike and a scrambler in a public area in my constituency. This is obviously a wider issue given the fact that two Deputies from different constituencies are here to speak on this issue. Five people were killed in accidents with quads and...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Patrick Costello: I am sharing time with Deputy O'Gorman. I am happy to take any answers that might be in correspondence afterwards. Like others, I want to raise the issue of direct provision. We have been talking about the importance of equality in this session and something we will be judged on is how more vulnerable groups were treated during this pandemic. I look at the infection rates among those...