Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

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Photo of Noel RockNoel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is good. That is ticking the legal check box, just in case there are gardaí at the gates. E-scooters are obviously legal in private spaces and I understand that business and university campuses are considering trialling them. My own local university, Dublin City University, will be commencing a trial of them in the coming weeks. That is, of course, perfectly legal because they will not be on public roads and, with technology, one can do interesting and exciting things like geo-fencing them whereby one would be unable to take them off the campus even if one so wished. We await the beginning of that trial with interest.

It is probably more appropriate that Deputy MacSharry asks this, but Mr. O'Leary said in his opening remarks that there is no legislation in this area. There is, of course, a Fianna Fáil Private Members' Bill on the matter. Is Mr. O'Leary familiar with that?

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