Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will be happy to work with anyone to address this problem in the best possible way. This has caused major problems in parks throughout the country, not just in Dublin. We need to close this loophole and if the legislation I propose does not meet all the requirements, I am open to any suggestions and to listening to what people have to say. This issue has been a scourge on our communities for too long and will continue to be if it is not addressed.

Over the years the superintendent and all the gardaí I have met have told me this anomaly is preventing them from seizing these vehicles and dealing with them. I am not asking that we criminalise the people on the vehicles but that we put in place legislation to allow gardaí to seize these vehicles and stop this. Children, some of them four or five years of age, are going around on these small motorbikes with no helmets. They are flying up and down parks and the vehicles cannot be seized. If they are taken, they have to be given back. That is unacceptable and I ask the House to support me on this.

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