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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: If we have to, but it is an important point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am glad to hear that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: You are forgiven.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Could we get statistics on that? That will inform the debate. We also want to know the outcomes of the court cases. Obviously, we do not want to know not the personal details, but the outcomes. I refer to the generic detail. I was lucky enough to visit Paris during August where e-scooters were ubiquitous. In fact, they were on the footpaths. They were coming at me in open spaces....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It could just give us a picture of what is going on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The evidence we are hearing from everybody today is positive, but we must use proper discretion. The key point is safety for the public and for the users. We need universal standards that can be applied and that are clear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I understand this is separate from what we are doing today. The RSA has a report due in December on its analysis of the outcomes of road traffic accidents in terms of fatalities and injuries for 2018. Is that due soon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The RSA is going into detail on the types of injuries on the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am not sure. I read it in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I ask Ms Murdock to circulate copies to the clerk to the committee as it will inform our debate. I want to get this right. The RSA makes a distinction between deaths and other injuries. It is also concentrating on how to reduce other injuries. Is that where it is going in terms of some of the policy issues? For every fatality there are a certain number of serious injuries. It is to get...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We need to concentrate on reducing the other significant injuries as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is fine. This legislation the Minister is proposing on the new fine regime and so on will come to the committee shortly. The RSA is talking about details of the types of roads where accidents happen - whether it is a national road, a regional road or a local road. I believe I am quoting RSA figures in saying that of the 93 deaths up to the end of August, 70 had been on roads where the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----speed limit was 80 km/h. I appreciate that the RSA has the facts and we get them from it. The debate must be about facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I accept it has been.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Not an anniversary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We are going there because it is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It sounds like a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: That remark is not on the record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I suppose the point there is that everybody-----