Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are making slow progress. The public consultation submissions are still being assessed. We have no core recommendations on maximum speed requirements.

I concur with Deputy MacSharry on the TRL report. It is like match boxes. The report does not even tell us whether they should be used, and have access to footpaths, bicycle lanes or even roadways. We have no idea what way we are going forward with it and who will win the argument.

As for the good and bad scooters, down the road who will determine a roadworthy e-scooter? We are miles off it, from what I can gather, and yet we can bring in other legislation the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport wants, such as to amend the Road Traffic Act, and that seems to be pushed through quickly. The e-scooter issue did not arise this year. It has been on the agenda in the past couple of years. Why does the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport cherry-pick the legislation it wants to push through the Dáil when there is cross-party consensus on regulating e-scooter use?