Written answers

Thursday, 22 April 2021

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Transport Policy

Photo of Holly CairnsHolly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit encourage and facilitate employees to use active travel to commute to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21055/21]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is committed to providing a healthy and safe working environment, and to improving the quality of working life of staff through the integration of wellbeing in work activities and practices. This commitment involves encouraging and facilitating staff participation in sustainable and active travel measures under the Workplace Travel Plan. This Plan promotes staff use of such travel options when travelling to, from and for work and provides for:

- Staff participation in the Annual Travel Pass and Cycle to Work schemes - the operation of which transferred to PeoplePoint in 2016, and

- The availability of bicycle parking spaces and lockers at Department offices.

My Department’s Environmental Management System had its ISO 14001/2015 accreditation recently extended from the Custom House Headquarters in Dublin to our offices in Wexford and Ballina. This comprehensive system addresses staff participation in sustainable transport options through regular internal communications relating to the schemes.  In addition, my Department is currently engaged in a review of its participation in the National Transport Authority’s Smarter Travel Workplaces scheme with further active travel measures under consideration.

The information requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the individual bodies concerned.  Arrangements have been put in place by each Agency to facilitate the provision of information directly to members of the Oireachtas.  The contact email address for each agency is set out in the following table:

State Body Contact E-mail
An Bord Pleanála oireachtasqueries@pleanala.ie
An Fóram Uisce (the Water Forum) info@nationalwaterforum.ie
Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum infodocklands@dublincity.ie
Ervia oireachtas@ervia.ie
Gas Networks Ireland oireachtas@ervia.ie
Heritage Council oireachtas@heritagecouncil.ie
Housing Finance Agency oireachtas.enquiries@hfa.ie
Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency publicreps@housingagency.ie
Irish Water oireachtasmembers@water.ie
Land Development Agency oireachtas@lda.ie
Local Government Management Agency corporate@lgma.ie
National Oversight and Audit Commission info@noac.ie
National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee ntacc@housing.gov.ie
Office of the Planning Regulator oireachtas@opr.ie
Ordnance Survey Ireland Oireachtas@osi.ie
Property Registration Authority reps@prai.ie
Pyrite Resolution Board oireachtasinfo@pyriteboard.ie
Residential Tenancies Board OireachtasMembersQueries@rtb.ie
Valuation Office oireachtas.enquiries@VALOFF.ie
Valuation Tribunal info@valuationtribunal.ie
Water Advisory Body info@wab.gov.ie
Waterways Ireland ceoffice@waterwaysireland.org

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