Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The Government is committed to legislating for e-scooters. The Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, which recently completed committee stage in the Dáil, creates a new category of vehicle in the Road Traffic Act, 1961 called powered personal transporters (PPTs), which will not need registration, licensing, taxation or a driving licence. The PPT category will include powered light micro-mobility vehicles such as e-scooters. The Bill has provisions to allow for regulation of the use of PPTs on public roads.

Establishing this new category of vehicle enables, in secondary legislation, the establishment of appropriate technical and safety standards and rules for the use of e-scooters. It is expected that the Bill will be finalised before the end of 2022 and regulations will follow. Preparatory work to draft both usage and technical regulations for e-scooters has commenced.