John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The work needed in this area should already be done and we should be out there enjoying this service. With a view to the learning deriving from that experience, the question then is how we can bring in a personal scheme, make it safe and allow micromobility to play a role in it. My concern is that the Minister will launch everything, the shared scheme and private ownership, and it will be a mess, the public will not like it and we will have a Paris situation or something like what happened on university campuses in the US when Lime first introduced the schemes, with accidents happening. The anecdotal evidence is that the majority of accidents involve privately-owned vehicles. However, if it works right, it can be useful. Several constabularies in the UK are using these scooters. The added mobility they could give to An Garda Síochána is something to consider. I want this working right. It is not that I have any particular grá for private companies pushing it or anything like that, but they have invested a lot of money in the technology and in improving it. I am impressed by that.