Delivery Team

In Year Three of delivering the SMP (April 2024-2025), the governance structures in place to oversee delivery of the Action Plan continued to provide an effective means for scrutinising overall implementation.

development of Moving Together: A Systems Approach to Behavioural Change and Improved Efficiency in Transport. In addition, in its role as the Taskforce with responsibility for overseeing the delivery of cross-cutting climate actions related to transport, the LG provided input into the development of the Transport Chapter of Climate Action Plan 2025 (CAP25) and is engaging with the Corrective Action Modelling Project, which is currently underway and will inform the Transport Chapter of the forthcoming Climate Action Plan 2026.

The Leadership Group (LG) is comprised of high-level representatives from the National Transport Authority (NTA), Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), the regional assemblies (SRA, NWRA, and EMRA), City and County Management Association (CCMA), Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage (DHLGH), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment (DCEE), Road Safety Authority (RSA), Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), as well as several divisions of the Department of Transport. This group continued to meet on a quarterly basis, considering challenges to the delivery of specific actions where needed.

The SMP Delivery Team (DT), which consists of representatives from the LG’s own organisations as well as broader representation when required, continued to interrogate the delivery of the SMP and Pathfinder Programme at a more granular level, and prepared a mid-term review of the Programme for the Minister in October 2024. The DT met on a monthly basis throughout Year Three, monitoring progress on the delivery of the SMP, considering any risks and/or mitigations required to facilitate timely delivery and escalating issues - where necessary - to the LG.

The LG contributed on an ongoing basis to the development of SMP-related measures including progress in delivering the Department’s Strategic Approach to Public Engagement on Climate Action and Sustainable Mobility 2024-25 and the

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