Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 251: To ask the Minister for Transport if discretionary funding is available to schools to enable them to encourage more cycling, such as grants to help them install bicycle stands. [44657/08]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department provides financial support, through the Dublin Transportation Office, to An Taisce's Green-School's Travel Module, which, in 2009, is planned to encompass 534 schools.

The Travel Module, which seeks to promote a range of alternatives to the private car for school travel, links cycle parking provision to cycle training and cycle promotion. To date, support has been made available, through this funding mechanism, for the provision of cycling infrastructure in 54 schools.