Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Reference was made earlier to e-scooters. I drive a car. If an e-scooter hits me at 20 km per hour, the rider is not insured and is not paying any road tax. He or she will certainly damage my car. That is the first point. The second point is that there is no safety equipment whatsoever involved when travelling on one of these things. I am sure that Professor Cusack would be interested to know that I have recently seen two children as pillion passengers on the board of one e-scooter. I understand that the Garda's hands are quite tied with regard to these issues at the moment. E-scooters are all over Europe and no matter what city one goes to there are e-scooters that one can use. The problem is that we have done away with all the hard work with regard to head protection for people who are on bicycles. Around Dundrum, Sandyford and other parts of that general area, I have seen people using unicycles: a guy standing up on a wheel. It is totally beyond me how one could control that. I understand there is difficulty with regard to e-scooters and the law. Is there a difficulty also around the use of a single wheel and the law?