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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What I intend to do, and obviously this is with the agreement of members, is write to the Minister for Transport, the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and the Secretary General of the Department of Transport specifically stating that we have had the various groups in before us in terms of people impacted by disabilities. I am referring to the Irish Wheelchair Association, the Irish Guide...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will go back to Senator Boylan. Is she available to talk? No. Next is Deputy Duncan Smith and he has eight minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I suggest that the Deputy identifies who he would like to answer his questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has Ms Murphy had any interaction with the sellers of e-scooters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Deputy Smith wish to come back in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I call Senator Boylan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Ms Murphy wish to contribute on this issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Ms Murphy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We can certainly follow up on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We certainly can do that. The Deputy might provide the appropriate wording and we can clerk to the committee can send that off. Has the Deputy concluded or does he wish to make any concluding comments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will call Ms Tinsley first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy's point is duly noted as one we could take up. It would probably also connect with active travel in respect of footpaths and so forth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask the Senator to conclude, There are others to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Ms Kennedy to conclude, because there are other contributors to come in and we must finish by 4.30 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask the Senator to conclude. There are other members who wish to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Senator Horkan to mute his microphone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It must be someone else. I ask all members to mute their microphones.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will ask Mr. Fulham, Ms Kennedy and Ms Tinsley to give their concluding remarks. Ms Murphy had to leave the meeting. She told us previously her time was limited. In terms of what we can do practically, the witnesses are very familiar with the legislation. For us, as a committee, we were, to say the least, dissatisfied the legislation did not cover e-scooters. A lot of it will only come...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will let the witnesses know and try to give them plenty of notice of when this matter comes before the committee again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has Ms Tinsley or the groups collectively interacted with their sister-type organisations around the world that must have encountered this in the context of the introduction of e-scooter legislation. If the groups have learned from the experiences of others, that could feed into an updated submission.