Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----at what are known as "kissing gates", which are designed to slow cyclists down. They have now become, effectively, chicanes where the cyclist must slow down or stop, or perhaps get off his or her bike. I have not used that stretch of the canal but this is a very serious issue. I am aware of one person who was attacked recently and hit with an iron bar as he was going through the gate. This was raised a number of days ago. I had asked for a debate on cycling previously and we need to make sure that when we design cycling infrastructure we do not design it in such a way that people are vulnerable to being attacked. We talk about Garda resources, but equally we cannot have a garda on every stretch of cycle lane.