Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Discussion

Mr. Hal Stevenson:

Similar to the other providers, our provision in this regard involves mandatory in-app and in-person training. Talking about safety in the context of this amending legislation, some of the key things to consider include scalability, and that applies to some of the innovations we talked about in respect of camera-based pavement detection, and the communication of safety measures to private e-scooters as well. Training is something that we, as responsible operators, provide as standard and as a matter of course to our users, as the committee has heard. If we are considering how that is translated into national legislation, it also applies to private e-scooters. There might be different answers if two or three retailers were on the panel regarding what they are going to offer their customers buying products over the counter, which is an important consideration. Ultimately, that ends up in a situation where it is necessary to ensure that most of these requirements are written into formal tendering or procurement processes undertaken by local authorities. That is intended to ensure when we set about bidding on services that there is a focus on safety in those responses submitted and a requirement on those tendering to commit to a certain number of in-person training sessions and-or mandatory in-app training and whatever else.

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