Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 1 July 2026
119. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport his plans to support shared mobility services in Ireland, including a proposal to extend or introduce commuter incentives to cover shared mobility services. [49948/26]
View answerThis Government is fully committed to promoting shared mobility as part of wider objectives to expand the availability of affordable and sustainable travel alternatives. To this end, I published a National Policy Statement on Shared Mobility and the Provision of Hubs in June 2025 to facilitate the expansion of shared mobility services across Ireland, and included several associated actions in the latest National Sustainable Mobility Policy (SMP) Action Plan, which was published in March.
Two projects are currently underway, led by the NTA, to make shared mobility more attractive and convenient for everyday commuting.
One of these projects is the Mobility Hubs Pilot Programme which is being developed to test the delivery of shared mobility hub networks across a diverse range of urban settlements. The five candidate locations are Cork City, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, and the towns of Carlow, Dundalk and Sligo, with approximately 300 hubs to be delivered across these areas in 2027. These hubs will play a key role in supporting commuter uptake of shared mobility by improving the visibility, accessibility and integration of these services with public transport networks.
The other project is the replacement of the TFI bike schemes in the regional cities with new Regional Shared Micromobility Schemes. These schemes will be more expansive in scale, covering larger geographical areas and incorporating e-bikes as a greater proportion of overall fleets.
These initiatives demonstrate the coordinated approach being taken by this Government to incentivise greater commuter take-up of shared mobility through policy, investment and service expansion.
