Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion
Mr. John Fulham:
We have been approached over the past few months by a number of e-scooter scheme providers that operate across Europe and internationally. Our principle of engagement with them is equal and we gave them the same information with the purpose of ensuring the safe implementation of e-scooter usage in terms of the people whom we represent. That is the premise on which we engaged with each company. We shared the same information but we worked with each of them in a way that was specific to them. We sit on safety boards that they may have, or they look for position papers or they question us on various pieces of safety information. Most of the e-scooter providers have been very interested and open to engage with us around this, which I would expect given that they seek to move their business into the Irish market.
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