Ms Moyagh Murdock:

For clarity, they are considered to be mechanically-propelled vehicles. For clarity, a mechanically-propelled vehicle must be taxed, insured and have passed an NCT. That is why it is a black-and-white issue. They are not legal on the roads.

Deputy O'Keeffe talked about Google and the TRL report. If people google these devices, they will find some outlets and suppliers reassuring the public that they are legal and that they have been approved. That is why we needed a quality report to inform us of what is legal in each country and where we should go.

The purpose of the TRL report was not to give us a recommendation on what way they can be used. It was to assess what was happening in all of the other European jurisdictions and other countries further afield so that we could inform our own decision-making. We were not asking TRL to come back and make a recommendation as to how to implement them. That was only to tell us what other jurisdictions were doing.

It takes time. There are little data on injuries and deaths on these because they are so new on our roads. I do not accept that these were around for a long time. We have very little information, especially in this country, on injuries. Thankfully, there are infrequent occurrences of serious injury and death in our near neighbours as well because they are not legal and they are not out there. The downside of not having them out there is that we do not have good research. That is the reality of it.