On 22nd August 2019, the Road Safety Authority submitted a report to Minister for Transport, Shane Ross confirming that electric scooters should be legalised on Irish roads.

The report's recommendations are based on findings that electric scooters are currently being used as a safe, effective and environmentally friendly mode of transport that drastically improves the quality of life of commuters in numerous other EU / EEA cities.

This petition aims to demonstrate the strength of the public's support for the safe use of electric scooters on Irish roads to Minister Shane Ross, An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar and Moyagh Murdock, CEO of the Road Safety Authority. This comes at a time when traffic congestion is rampant and Dublin's already inadequate public transport network is over capacity.

Minister Ross is expected to make a decision on the regulation of electric scooters over the coming months and thus it is also important to ensure that any measures that are introduced are not overly restrictive and should instead encourage the safe use of this wonderful mode of transport!

There are reports that measures to introduce licensing, taxation and insurance of electric scooters will be introduced. This is futile, discriminatory and prohibitive and serves no purpose other than undermining an extremely effective solution to Dublin's traffic congestion.

NO to licensing.

to licensing. NO to road tax.

to road tax. NO to insurance.

While speed limiting and helmet requirements are positively encouraged, the licensing, insurance and taxation of a small electric scooter is not acceptable. Instead electric scooter commuters should be treated in the same way as cyclists!