Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As with other legislative measures, we saw the headline about scrambler bikes but what was Sinn Féin proposing to do? It was proposing to amend and further complicate the Road Traffic Acts, which would have had a limited impact in addressing the issue.

This Bill seeks to achieve a few things. It will be an offence to ride a scrambler bike in a public place where it is antisocial. It gives the Garda the power to seize and dispose of or destroy these bikes. I have heard gardaí state at public meetings that the children's parents have collected the scrambler bikes from An Garda Síochána because of the lacuna in our legislation. The Bill seeks to address that. That was absent from the Sinn Féin Bill.

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