Ms Joanne Murphy:

I do. I thank the Chairman. The whole insurance thing is the most difficult part of this. It is something that we really need to address. As Ms Tinsley and Ms Kennedy stated and as I set out in my written submission, if a person has an impact with us, there is potential for an injury that you would not get over easily. There could be long-term effects. There is no comeback or way of identifying the person unless the e-scooter is registered. All of those things may need to be considered for the safety of people with disabilities as well as the general public. There is a need to view it as being on a sliding scale because there are people who have an impairment but not a disability. They, too, will be impacted if there are many e-scooter users on footpaths. Even if they are not injured, an awful lot of people will be deterred from being independent. If an e-scooter suddenly appearing in your central field of vision because you have not detected it in your peripheral vision, you get a terrible fright and are really shaken. I have experienced that. It does not take many such experiences to shake your confidence in being able to go out. It is certainly an issue for me when I go out with my son attached to an assistance dog. When an e-scooter went into the back of Polly, I was faced with the situation of having to get the dog and my son home safely. It is a complex situation. If we tackle it now, we can put in measures to address this. We hope insurance and registration would cause to people to take note of the need to be responsible in the ownership and usage of e-scooters.