Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is scope for us to ensure that in the legislation. It is in the interests of these companies hiring scooters out per minute, hour or as some kind of subscription service to be bound by all the rules and they would have to make sure of that because otherwise their licence would be taken off them. The bigger challenge for all of us is how we ensure that people who are using scooters they bought do not abandon them, although maybe they would not want to abandon them anywhere because they might be easily taken away or stolen and used somewhere else. The challenge for us in the legislation is how we deal with people who buy scooters. The geofencing may work for shared scooters and could slow them down, limit their speed and stop them going into pedestrian areas and onto footpaths and so on. It is harder when it comes to privately owned scooters. Do the witnesses have any experience of other cities, or an example of best practice? We seem to have lots of examples of worst practice, such as in Paris, Brussels, Strasbourg and other places. Are there any places where this system seems to have worked better?