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

As Mr. O'Leary will know, the UK system has the most conservative approach to this issue. Nevertheless, that approach has resulted in fatalities and tragic accidents, one of which was recently prominently featured in the media. Perhaps the UK's head-in-the-sand approach is not necessarily what is required here.

There is a political imperative and I appreciate that the legislation is not the concern of Mr. O'Leary. As Fianna Fáil's legislation was parked for three months, it will be revisited early in the new year. This is the genesis of my question as to whether the Minister has plans with regard to legislation or whether he simply intends to amend Fianna Fáil's legislation. However, I appreciate the answers given by Mr. O'Leary and where he is coming from.

The report is very good and useful, and I was sorry to hear the criticisms. I do not know who could write a report on his or her lunchbreak. If Deputy MacSharry was here, I would have to query how long his lunch break would be. The report is 42 pages long, which is a tremendous lunch break and I could barely read it on my lunch break. It is beneficial that the report went outside of the Anglophone world, as was said by Mr. O'Leary. To use a word that I do not want to use again, it is a very good "consolidation" of a number of other reports that I had read elsewhere. This report is a great one-stop-shop for educating people on this issue because it can be a little diffuse, and one cannot ask Members to read 11 different reports about a topic. It will serve a tremendous use and, hopefully, will inform our debate in the months ahead and I have no doubt that it will come before us again.

I have a question for both organisations on the taxing and insuring of this vehicle. It is impossible to tax an electric scooter because it does not have a vehicle registration number and, therefore, it is impossible to tax.