Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of capital investment provided to urban pedestrian and cycling routes in each year since 2005, in tabular form. [40445/18]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply given to Dáil Question 228 and the supplementary information given via letter dated 30 May in respect of cycling and walking infrastructure investment over the period 2011 to 2017.

As noted in that reply, I have secured significant increases in funding for such infrastructure over the period 2018 to 2021.

Over this period, we now have a funding stream of €110 million specifically for Cycling/Walking investment in our major cities, together with €135 million for Sustainable Urban Transport, a programme which encompasses a range of initiatives to improve urban transport including for cyclists and pedestrians. Alongside this, our considerable planned investment in the bus system through the new BusConnects programme - initially in Dublin and then followed by other cities - will also support the construction of, where possible, segregated cycle lanes along the improved bus corridors; the aim in Dublin is to deliver around 200 kilometres of quality cycling facilities as part of the bus upgrade. Beyond these urban initiatives, the Deputy will be aware that I have also allocated €53 million to support the development of new Greenways in line with the recently published Greenways Strategy.

I believe these measures, and the funding I have secured to underpin them, will positively assist with the better development and provision of cycling and walking infrastructure across the State over the next short few years.

In relation to the period 2005 to 2010 the detailed information requested by the Deputy is currently being compiled and will be forwarded in due course in line with Standing Orders.