Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Pencharz for his presentation. I have been watching the pilot in Bristol with interest. I congratulate him on his proactivity.

My colleagues and I have met with various people and engaged on safety, which is an issue of great concern to me. In Mr. Robertson's presentation, he mentioned case studies in London and Barcelona as part of his work in this area. It is fair to say that from a carbon-neutral point of view, a climate-change perspective and in terms of a modal shift in transportation, we are all on board and welcome this new type of public transport. Based on today's meeting, we are very much moving towards that shared model. In the context of the population bases outside Dublin, is there sufficient population to have competition in a shared e-scooter regime? I wish to ask him about his perspective in respect of the case studies in London and Barcelona and from the enforcement and safety perspective. I am focusing on safety because I have bought the argument from the point of view of sustainability and other factors. How can we take the safety perspective from the learnings from Barcelona and London and adapt it to Ireland?