Active Travel
Dail Éireann — 2023-10-05
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Marc Ó Cathasaigh (GP), Waterford

I am sure Deputy Leddin will adequately speak about Limerick. I will focus on a Waterford example, specifically the IDA Ireland business park there. There are a number of bus routes that drop people off at the Cork Road and the quality of the service is pretty good. However, if a person is headed to the premises of Sun Life, which is a massive employer, or Teva or Bausch + Lomb, or to Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board to do a retrofitting course, you could be 1.5 km away when you alight at the bus stop at Woodlawn Grove. That is a 19-minute walk, more or less. If it is a rainy or wintery day it makes it difficult to make that decision, when one could drive straight to the door. There is a real potential here, especially in business parks of this type. They are crying out to burnish their green credentials, and not in a greenwashing way, as they are looking to seriously reduce what would probably be a scope 3 emission. They want to get their employees to the workplace in a sustainable way. The business parks are big enough and we should look at this to see what solutions could be there.

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Sitting date: 2023-10-05