Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the review of the sustainable mobility policy launched in November 2019 is expected to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39674/20]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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As the Deputy is aware, a review of sustainable mobility policy was announced last year with the publication of a range of background papers on my Department’s website, a stakeholder engagement event and a public consultation which ended in February.

Since then my Department has analysed the more than 250 submissions which were received as part of that public consultation and a report of that consultation process was published in recent weeks on the Departmental website. That report provides an overview of the type of stakeholders who engaged with the consultation process and also summarises the thematic areas raised in submissions.

My Department is now developing a new a new policy framework for the next 10 years that can provide a strategic backdrop to the increased investment planned by this Government across the sustainable mobility programme as outlined in the Programme for Government – A Shared Future. The aim is to develop a policy framework that better supports sustainable mobility to provide for increased use of active travel and public transport.

The Deputy will acknowledge this is a substantive policy area and one which is fundamentally important to this Government’s ambition generally. The Department is currently refining its development of a new policy framework to allow for further engagement with stakeholders in the coming months and I look forward to that engagement in due course.