Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is asking me to take a position on this before the RSA completes its report. I am not going to do that. We have people who have made a detailed study of what happens both here and abroad, and for me to make a decision in advance of that would be absurd. I may have a disposition, but the RSA is an agency with some authority and interest in safety, which I notice is absent from the Deputy's representations. Safety is paramount. The most important thing is that passengers, travellers, and people in other vehicles should be safe, and that is the most important element of these particular e-scooters, which the Deputy is seeking to have introduced. If they are introduced, it is important to me that the RSA gives a judgment on whether they are safe for the people affected by them, and I am not just talking about those who are on them.

It is also very important that the Deputy does not make statements without backing them up. He said there were events which were being quoted of incidents overseas, which did not happen. He said they were erroneous. Let us get the detail on that. I have quoted facts and figures about what has happened in other European cities to him. They are well known, and those details, as far as I know, are open to correction but have not been corrected.

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