Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2023-02-01
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Gerry Horkan (FF), Industrial and Commercial Panel

That is fine. Every point she made I agreed with. I was at the ZEVI events in the Aviva Stadium with the Minister, as he will remember. I cycled to the events. Active travel is better than ZEVI, but ZEVI is better than a combustion engine. That point is well made.
I am sorry I was not here for the whole debate on Committee Stage because I was chairing a transport committee. It is a very useful and good Bill. There is an awful lot in it. I look forward to all of it being implemented and so on. We are not yet at the Final Stage. It would be remiss of us not to acknowledge that almost €290 million in active travel measures was announced today, which are not related to electric vehicles.
The Minister, Senator Boyhan and I happen to know about the split in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, where there is about €16 million on the Dún Laoghaire side and about €4 million on the Rathdown side. I have not managed to work out where another €4 million is going. We need to make sure that the next allocation goes more to Rathdown than Dún Laoghaire.

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Sitting date: 2023-02-01