The Love30 Campaign supported by Dublin Cycling Campaign and nine other supporting groups will be presenting to interested TDs and Senators in the Oireachtas at 10am on Thursday 2 October 2025, on the delays to the implementation of the default 30 km/h speed limit in urban areas. After the presentation, between 10.30 and 11.30 approximately, we will be holding a gathering of supporters from around the country outside the Dáil Chamber on Kildare Street in support of this Love30 campaign. We will be inviting all TDs and Senators to meet our supporters. We will also be inviting the media to witness and report on the issue.

We are asking all supporters of lower urban speed limits to join us outside the Dáil Chamber on Kildare Street from 10:10-11:30 on Thursday 2 October to demand urgent action on the implementation of the default 30 km/h urban speed limit. This issue affects everyone, so spread the word to other community groups!

The background to this demonstration is that the previous government introduced the Road Traffic Act 2024 following a comprehensive Speed Limit Review published in 2023. This Review unequivocally recommended the reduction of the urban default speed limit from the present 50km/h to a new safer 30km/h. The Road Traffic Act 2024 consolidated this decision and also the reduction of Default Speed Limits on Secondary and Local Roads.

However, the Department of Transport are now reneging on the expert recommendation for a Default 30km/h urban speed limit, and its legislative backing in the Road Traffic Act 2024, by proposing the introduction of separate Guidelines for Setting and Managing Speed Limits in Ireland, which will retain a default limit of 50 km/h in built-up areas and leave it up to individual Local Authorities to identify roads where 30km/h is an appropriate limit. The Love30 campaign, supported by Dublin Cycling Campaign and nine other supporting groups, strongly objects to this u-turn by the Department, and demands that the 30km/h default urban speed limit be introduced as soon as possible.