Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a national scheme to register custom-built electrical trikes for road worthiness as in the case of a person (details supplied); if clarity will be given in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50138/22]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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As Minister for Transport, I do not have a role in vehicle registration. That is a competence of the Office of the Revenue Commissioner.

Legal requirements govern all vehicles used on public roads in EU member states, including Ireland. A vehicle must meet a set of safety, environmental and conformity of production requirements, known as motor vehicle type-approval, before it can be registered for use. Every vehicle produced must be accompanied by a certificate of conformity, which certifies that the vehicle corresponds to the approved type. A motorised vehicle cannot be registered without this certificate of conformity and, accordingly, type-approval must be sought from an EU Type-Approval Authority.

The relevant type-approval regulation for two- and three-wheeled vehicles is Regulation (EU) 168 of 2013, which details the minimum technical standards such a vehicle is required to meet.