Ms Léan Kennedy:

In terms of examples of how insurance has worked well in other countries, we have not actually come across a good example. One of the reasons behind our ask in the paper is the hope that putting an insurance policy system in place would deter bad behaviour by people using e-scooters, such as going up on footpaths when it is prohibited, and so on.

People who are blind or vision impaired like me have an extra concern in terms of how we would identify someone who is using an e-scooter that has had a collision with us. We need to ensure there is an accessible plate on the e-scooter and we also need a system in place whereby we can identify the e-scooter user. The hope is that this would come under a good insurance policy. There are asks, and how we explored and examined it was by looking at how we could encourage better behaviour from people using e-scooters when the law is implemented.