John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has an active travel strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55246/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Actions to encourage significant uptake of walking and cycling feature strongly in a number of recent policy documents, including the National Sustainable Mobility Policy, published earlier this year; the Climate Action Plan 2021; and the Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030. These policy documents and their related action plans contain complementary commitments in the Active Travel space, including the construction of infrastructure, the continuation and expansion of behavioural change programmes, the development of communications strategies and other related measures.

In tandem, the National Transport Authority (NTA) and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) are developing plans for future infrastructure interventions across the country. The NTA's CycleConnects plans are currently out for public consultation with a deadline of 11 November, while TII's National Cycle Network plan is due for publication by year end. These plans outline a comprehensive future network of cycle lanes, making our urban centres more bicycle-friendly and connecting our regional centres through active travel infrastructure on our national road network.