Pauline O'Reilly (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I did not speak to amendment No. 17 earlier and I will come back in on that. In case it was not clear enough, I have an issue with some of the language around this and I would hope that the Minister of State will have a look at that language. The language that Senator Warfield is suggesting does not capture what we need to capture and is missing some of what is there already. Substitution is probably the wrong way to go. It is more a case of looking at all of that language.

Amendment No. 12 was discussed earlier. I am very much supportive of this idea. I had spoken earlier about my housing estate where the older people is showing the younger generation the ropes. It should not take 50 years, as it has on my estate, for that to develop. If we are looking at true sustainability and 15-minute cities, we need to make sure that everybody is captured within that 15 minutes and that they have bus stops and so on, and that it is walkable and liveable in. We have an obligation as a State to ensure that the communities that we are ramping up big time through this Bill and the LDA Bill are the kind of communities that will promote respect, diversity and inclusivity.

I would like to hear from the Minister of State what is the best way of wrapping that amendment No. 17 issue around public transport. I am not convinced that this is the correct place to insert that but I am certainly open to it. It has to be central to what we do. It is something that we speak about constantly on the Joint Committee on Climate Action. I would like the Government to come back with the word "sustainability" in this. I thank the Acting Chairperson for the time.