Ms Aisling Dunne:

I know that the Chair heard from our colleagues on this. We agree with them. We wrote to the Minister and also to the committee regarding our concerns about the 250 W. This is in the current draft of the Bill, but it proposed that it will be removed on Committee Stage. We support the decision to remove it and to deal with that in regulations. We would like to see it higher. We think there is a key distinction between watt power and speed. They sometimes mistakenly get linked. However, they should not be, because of different terrain and different safety features that can come on the scooters which require watt power.