I welcome the guests from Raheen National School to the Gallery today. As is customary here, I request that the pupils have no homework today. I hope they enjoy their visit to the Oireachtas. I thank them very much.

I join the Leas-Chathaoirleach in welcoming the guests from Raheen National School to the Chamber. It is a coincidence that I am speaking when they are present. I wish them the very best on their visit to Dublin. I hope they really enjoy their tour around Leinster House and get to see what we do here as representatives of the people through passing laws and trying to make decisions that benefit the lives of all those back home who sent us here.

In that vein, I would like to raise some of the issues that Raheen, a small rural village right in the heart of County Wexford, faces daily owing to speeding. I recently met some representatives in the village, who have highlighted to me that some of the cars that make their way through the village, particularly when students are coming and going to school, are simply travelling too fast. It is quite dangerous and not safe. I encourage the Minister for Transport to reopen the safe routes to school programme. When it was originally opened, it made much-needed funding available to school communities to assist with traffic and address speeding outside school gates. Unfortunately, the programme has been closed to new entrants for about four years. It is time to take another look at this so that villages like Raheen, including Raheen National School, will have an opportunity to have much-needed traffic calming, working in collaboration with Wexford County Council. While some work was done in the area recently, more funding and greater access to the funding for primary and secondary schools is a matter on which the Minister for Transport should come to the House to provide more detail and an update.