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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I will give the Deputy a chance to contribute again. I am keeping Members to time so that we can get to more questions.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I assure the Deputy that there is no intention whatsoever to disadvantage the northside of Cork city versus the southside. If there are particular projects on the southside or elsewhere that are being advanced faster, that is a matter for Cork City Council in conjunction with the NTA. There is no Government strategy to try to disadvantage one versus the other. I will make a general...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. I call Deputy Gould.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I would love nothing more than to see the northside of Cork get a larger, fairer share, but it comes down to the council.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are over time, Minister.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: Does the Minister not accept that receiving half the same funding for four years on the trot is not fair on the constituents I represent? I have spoken directly with the NTA where I have raised this issue repeatedly. I have also raised it with Cork City Council, and I understand it is the council’s job to bring these projects forward, but the people I represent do not see any...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy. The Minister to respond.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: -----to walk on roads that trucks drive on. That is not good enough.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am going to ask Members for their co-operation.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy. We need greater investment in Cork – southside as well as northside – in terms of improved footpaths and an improved environment to make it safe for our children to walk or cycle to their local football clubs, boxing clubs or whatever it may be. Historically, there has been an underinvestment, although that has not been the case under this Government....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I hear from officials that Cork tends to be a bit slower and more expensive. We need to spend the money wisely, widely and well.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We will try to use the time wisely and stay within the limits.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Active Travel
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he is aware of an uneven allocation in funding for active travel in 2024 in Cork city. [13240/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: Will the Minister update the House as to whether he is aware of the uneven allocation of funding for active travel in 2024 in Cork city? For the fourth year on the trot, active travel funding is skewed between the northside and the southside and, once again, the northside of Cork city loses out.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I had thought the question referred to an uneven allocation from year to year and I did not realise it was specifically about the northside versus the southside of Cork. I will come to the details of that in my supplementary reply and I will first give the original written response. I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to active travel, which is administered...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (21 Mar 2024)
Thomas Gould: This is the fourth year that I have raised with the Minister the uneven allocation of funding between the northside and southside. People may think it is still funding being spent in Cork but if people come from the constituency that I represent, they can see the disparity in the funding. This is a serious issue that goes to the heart of the neglect of the northside by this Government....