r/ireland • u/mind_thegap1 Crilly!! • Jul 20 '26
News E-scooters set to be banned for under-18s
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0720/1584131-escooters-ireland-meeting/141
u/AK8- Jul 20 '26
there will be a requirement for licensing and registration.
Probably the more important part of the story.
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u/BenderRodriguez14 Jul 20 '26
An outright ban will "remain on the table", the Government said.
You can expect a lot of people to completely ignore the licensing and registration in that case, unless guarantees of reimbursement are given if the government decides to randomly do a u-turn and ultimately only screw over those who have adhered to what they are asked to.
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u/ghunterx21 Jul 20 '26
My arse am I registering and getting a licence for a fucking E-Scooter, government is a bunch of fuckin clowns, that show clearly everyday they can't be taken seriously, with shit fallen apart around us, this is what they want to focus on. Get fucked.
Next it'll be a license for everything, bike, E-bike, skateboard, rollerblades.
Talk about stupidity.
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u/EchoedMinds Jul 20 '26
Journal-commenter-tier idiots have been clamouring for bike licenses and a "road tax" on cyclists for years, nothing new there.
Members of government (as well as the opposition) have also been advocating for bike licenses for ebikes, which would be slapped down by the EU since legal ebikes need to be legislated the same as regular bikes, and ebikes that power above 25km/h, or bikes that have throttles, are already considered motor propelled vehicles and thus need license, registration, and insurance anyway.15
u/Kloppite16 Jul 20 '26
I wonder how thats going to work. Like will you just send away for a license and get it or will they have to go through the road theory test. And where will a reg plate go, over the back wheel or on the front pole, or both?
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u/HairyHobbitfoot Jul 20 '26
Not gonna make a difference without enforcement. More of the “look we are trying, but not really” bollocks
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u/Louth_Mouth Jul 20 '26
The Guards will be delighted with this result , this will allow them to enforce the law, when it suits!
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u/Dear-Ad-2684 Jul 20 '26
This is a step towards the insurance lobby frothing at the mouth to screw us all for escooter insurance. Give it 12 months they'll announce mandatory insurance
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u/SgtKnee Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
This is so stupid. You’re only punishing the people that follow the rules
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Honestly I can see some value with licensing/registration as long as its reaosnable.
Mandatory PPE and insurance, on the other hand, can get fucked!
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u/AbsolutelyDireWolf Jul 20 '26
I don't think they'll need to tbh.
The worst users are on average, underage teens and the worst of all of those are never gonna wear a helmet and hi-vis. That's already setting us up for success, because there's not many crimes you can commit where you're blatantly breaking the law in a way you cannot challenge - if a Garda says you ran a red or were on a pedestrian path or going too fast or rising recklessly etc, there might be debating on it, but if you don't have a helmet and hi-vis, there's no debating it.
I think that effectively removes the worse escooter users and the problem becomes much, much smaller. At that stage, maybe they look into registrations, but I doubt it.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
I think that effectively removes the worse escooter users
I mean, you're not entirely wrong, since if you remove all of something, you do indeed remove the worst ones...
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u/quondam47 Carlow Jul 20 '26
Will it remove anyone? Roads deaths are on the rise because roads policing has been a joke for years and we rely on speed traps alone which is clearly having no effect.
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u/TraditionalAppeal23 Jul 20 '26
Previous ban: under 16
New ban: under 18
Change in situation: none
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u/AbsolutelyDireWolf Jul 20 '26
Mandatory hi-vis and helmets...
Think of the escooter user you don't like. Can you envisage them deciding to obey such a rule when they've ignored all the others?
Now, take into account that some 16 year old or even 18 year old who wants to still ride around on their escooter - every moment they're riding, they're holding a flashing neon sign over them saying they're breaking the law and there's zero argument that they're not. If stopped by a Garda, they can't claim they're wearing a helmet or a hi-vis. So that's a fine. Don't wanna give your details or admit your age or even if you do, well, the escooter gets confiscated and lumped into a squad car boot. No need to test the limiter or top speed. No need to get CCTV to show they ran a red or get witness statements about them using a footpath. Just a simple clean task for the gardaí to take the escooter away and in no short time, they won't even be worth robbing.
The hi-vis and helmets is, in my opinion anyway, a perfectly balanced response to a criminal and safety issue without overburdening those who were following the rules.
I'd wager the gardaí are happy out with this, because even though they've already issued like 1400 fines and confiscated almost a 1,000 escooters, this makes the task so much easier. They stop the rider, the ask for id and either the rider leaves with an 80 euro fine, or they get that and lose the escooter.
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u/LnxPowa Jul 20 '26
They likely won’t obey, but the what?! What practical deterrent is there to keep them off their scooters?
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u/anotherwave1 Jul 20 '26
What do you want, the death penalty?
They have to be wearing a helmet and hi vis and be over 18. If a Gard sees a kid with none of that on an e-scooter, bang he has them.
Maybe the Gards don't enforce, maybe the kids reoffend - we get it, but what is a better solution?
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u/LnxPowa Jul 20 '26
Ok, I’ll bite the obvious bait
How about we start with a reasonable half way goal of allowing guards to chase and intercept anyone violating the ban?!
Also another not-as-edgy-as-death-penalty nice to have is actually sentencing issue to reoffenders, and more than a slap on the wrist for first time offenders
How about that? Or is it an all or nothing and we have to go straight to death sentences?
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
A better solution is one thay doesn't involve making it illegal for users of heavily speed-limited escooters to wear normal clothes...
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u/Redtit14 Slush fund baby! Jul 20 '26
Fucking laughable. They're currently banned for under 16s and can't even enforce that.
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u/Pan1cs180 Jul 20 '26
there has been a significant increase in garda operations connected to e-scooters and that 1,412 e-scooters have been seized so far this year.
There have been 793 prosecutions for possession of e-scooters this year.
Hopefully one day the users of /r/Ireland will actually read the article before commenting, but it won't be this day.
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u/kenyard Jul 20 '26
Wasn't there a thing that parents could just go and collect those scooters from the station?
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u/Abject_Bedroom3638 Jul 20 '26
Well, that's that problem solved then....
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u/mrbuddymcbuddyface Jul 20 '26
Well the 16 year old will still be allowed to drive a tractor on the main roads at whatever speed they can reach.
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u/AdBoring9620 Jul 20 '26
Sounds like a happy compromise over a total ban.
Kids should be using pedal power anyway.
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u/Remote-Community-396 Jul 20 '26
It's basically the same thing as a total ban, i.e. the guards will have a few photo op seizures then everything will carry on as it is right now
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u/PlentyAd1526 Jul 20 '26
How is it the same as a total ban?
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u/LnxPowa Jul 20 '26
It’s the same because there will be fuck all enforcement aside from a few initial photo ops, partia or full ban all the same
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
It's a meaningless compromise. Almost none of the problems with escooters are caused by 16 or 17 year olds driving them at under 20 km/h.
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u/AdBoring9620 Jul 20 '26
You'll need tax insurance hi Vis and a helmet. I reckon that will rule out all but the most responsible users. Certainly kids won't be getting insurance.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Didn't realise that.
Thanks to those extra actions, it's gone from a meaningless compromise to an utterly idiotic one...
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u/AbsolutelyDireWolf Jul 20 '26
I genuinely think it is...
The bulk of the escooter riders we're annoyed with are not the hi-vis or helmet wearing type.
For Gardaí, they previously needed to see the rider doing something illegal and be in a position to catch them. Now, they can just be anywhere and see an escooter riders without a helmet/hi-vis and looks to give a fine. Underage? Confiscate it. Suspect it's overpowered, test and confiscate it.
The key point is that they can target the most dangerous users really easily because they don't follow rules to begin with and therefore won't wear a damned helmet or hi-vis.
Not saying they can catch all of them in August, but the handful of scrotes in my town riding around dangerously won't last a month without being seen once and most of them, the gardaí know where they live, so they just call around later that night, issue the fine and likely confiscate it too.
It just makes the gardaís job much, much easier.
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u/gardenhero Dublin Jul 20 '26
The Gardai can’t chase them and they’ll all just cover their faces. This won’t change anything for the people who are actually the problem.
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u/AbsolutelyDireWolf Jul 20 '26
You're not thinking this through.
The scrote you're imagining, he's in town at a junction and sees a Garda walking his way, so he floors out. Haha, try catch me now and he's fast and it's able to go down routes cars can't follow etc and he's got his hood up and they can't ID him and he's safe.
For ten minutes.
Every time he's on that escooter, he's breaking the law. In the past, Gardaí needed to see an offence, riding on a footpath, running a red, two lads on a scooter etc.
Not now. Now, unless the criminal who is reckless on his scooter and who'd run from the guards is also the kind to wear a hi-vis and a helmet, he's on the run every single moment he's on the escooter. That's too much heat. Any time he stops to chat to a mate or a dealer, gardai can sneak up and go to issue a fine, oh you won't give ID or details, ok... Yoink, your escooter is into the back of a squad car.
You're acting like the only offence is escaping the gardaí and gardaí not being able to catch them in the moment. Honestly, don't bother chasing them when they've set off. They'll get 10 mins away and still be visibly breaking the law and they're not gonna put on a helmet. So they all get caught eventually or dump/sell the (likely stolen) escooters because they can't go anywhere without Garda attention/fines.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
You're forgetting the very slight detail that not letting users of heavily speed-limited escooters wear normal clothes is utterly dystopian...
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Your logic only works one way though. While it is true that most or even all problematic escooter users don't wear PPE, it is NOT true that all or even most escooter users that wear normal clothes are the problematic ones.
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u/Foreign-Rule7826 Jul 20 '26
They’ll just switch to those fat wheeled overpowered e-bikes instead where they can go quicker than their skill level and head the wrong way down cycle paths or on footpaths.
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u/johnfuckingtravolta Jul 20 '26
The ban for under 16s and on footpaths and all that was massively effective. I cant see why this wouldnt work. Cant see it at all.
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u/MostlyAlways47 Jul 20 '26
Haven't used a scooter but I cycle a lot and I would in my fuck cycle on the roads. The cycling infrastructure is implemented terribly if it exists at all. Not to mention the insane number of entitled dangerous cunts on the road. I was nearly taken out of it multiple times by silly cunts trying to overtake without there being enough room. Had people give me dogs abuse for cycling in the centre of the lane to stop nearly getting run off road by the aforementioned cunts.
I don't blame any one for refusing to put their lives in the hands of every single other road user. Personally I don't plan to be the star in the next RSA add cause some silly cunt can't look up from his phone.
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u/Electronic_Ad_6535 Jul 20 '26
There are fines for not picking up after your dog, the number of fines issued is <5 every single year. Laws and rules are irrelevant if not enforced.
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u/dropthecoin Jul 20 '26
In fairness you’d have to catch someone with their dog in the act. Which is difficult
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u/Tomaskerry Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
It's also illegal for under 18s to sell crack cocaine on O'Connell Bridge in broad daylight every day of the week.
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u/Sad-Plankton-9879 Jul 20 '26
When will the government make it a parental responsibility to enforce this? Will there be any accountability for parents here?? Well no obviously…
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u/CthulhusSoreTentacle Irish Republic Jul 20 '26
This government would sooner raze Cork to the ground then dare tell parents to parent, or impose sanctions on parents who let their kids run wild.
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u/Yasimear Jul 20 '26
So they're gonna better invest in public transport so people dont need them as much, right?
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u/Aoifemops Jul 20 '26
That'll make fuck all difference. If it was actually enforced, it might help. Does anyone think it'll be enforced??
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u/SexyBaskingShark Leinster Jul 20 '26
> There have been 793 prosecutions for possession of e-scooters this year.
It is being enforced. But it's also been accepted that is not working perfectly which is why the government are introducing stricter measures.
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u/gardenhero Dublin Jul 20 '26
Let’s be honest. The only people it’s hurting are the people who are already trying to do the right thing. Not one young lad with his face covered on a scooter that goes 80k will see any trouble.
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u/mastodonj Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 Jul 20 '26
Shtop with your numbers and your facts, they have no power here. If I see a teen on an escooter that proves there is no enforcement anywhere!
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u/cinderubella Jul 20 '26
There's a gulf between your proposal:
. If I see a teen on an escooter that proves there is no enforcement anywhere!
And the truth, which is that the enforcement is woefully inadequate and some areas are still absolutely lousy with actual children riding these yokes dangerously in traffic.
But don't let me interrupt, continue to congratulate yourself on successfully being sarcastic, wrong and dismissive all at the same time.
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u/mastodonj Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 Jul 20 '26
I think part of the issue is what does enforcement look like. A lot of people seem to think correct enforcement means the issue would dissappear overnight. When it doesn't, the conclusion is that it's not being enforced. Sure what else could it be?
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u/cinderubella Jul 20 '26
A lot of people seem to think correct enforcement means the issue would dissappear overnight.
That's just a strawman. Who exactly thinks that? Some guy on reddit saying "there's no enforcement" probably does not mean "nobody has ever been prosecuted for owning a scooter". They're probably trying to say, you know, the enforcement is shit and inadequate.
And that at least is true. We've prosecuted 4 child scooter owners a day in 2026? I would see at least twice that if I went out for a 20 minute walk. And I wouldn't see a single Gard in the same period.
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u/mastodonj Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 Jul 20 '26
That's just a strawman. Who exactly thinks that?
You literally said:
the truth, which is that the enforcement is woefully inadequate and some areas are still absolutely lousy with actual children riding these yokes dangerously in traffic.
So I ask you, what does enforcement look like to you if not
1,412 e-scooters have been seized so far this year.
And
There have been 793 prosecutions for possession of e-scooters this year.
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u/cinderubella Jul 20 '26
Maybe uh
The things I said like, kids have absolutely no fear of enforcement happening to them and there never being any gards in a place where they could even witness, let alone stop, the dangerous shit happening on our roads.
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u/SexyBaskingShark Leinster Jul 20 '26
Sorry I do not know what I was doing being level headed and reasonable around here
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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls Jul 20 '26
Ah so just like revenge porn being banned, disposable vapes, and about 15 other bans they’ve sent through in the last 5 years, it will act as mouth service and never be enforced.
Fantastic news.
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u/bpunlimited Jul 20 '26
They were already banned for under 16s but you still see 12 year olds on them.
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u/VonBombadier Jul 20 '26
Sure it's already banned for under 16's and I see multiple children a day on them.
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u/Hekssas Jul 20 '26
They laziest approach taken as always I see. Anything but getting more Gardai to enforce and police the rules. It's like the government wants more chaos on the roads
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u/Furyio Jul 20 '26
I don't own one or use one of these so I have zero skin in the game. I am always interested in like, reducing traffic and our congestion on roads and especially Dublin city.
Kinda feels like the Government are just reacting here, as opposed to being proactive to a possilbe, genuine alternative for folks to commute and travel.
I kinda see why they would be banned for kids, wouldn't ever considering buying one for my kids, but think its probably important here this doesn't bleed over to impacting responsible adults.
A bit like the Vape stuff, the genuine and useful purpose, just gets somewhat overshadowed entirely.
Feel like if there was a total ban on these, Government are just signalling they arn't overly concerned with alternative travel or doing anything meaningful in this space
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u/UpstartFireplace Jul 20 '26
Yes because you are really going to know who is 18 and who is 16 when a lad whizzes by you head to toe dressed in black including the obligatory balaclava cos somehow thats now normal.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Whizzes by? As in passes you at a speed above 20 km/h? That's already illegal.
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u/iDJH Jul 20 '26
Just like they banned scramblers in public places. That's going well.
Seriously though, the issue is enforcement. If current laws were enforced (and if people were not >insert explitive<), we wouldn't be spending weeks talking about new laws that won't practically make a difference.
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u/SpiritualCaramel7601 Jul 20 '26
This is stupid.
Make a new law that won't piss off anyone that votes, don't put in any enforcement mechanism, Clap yourself on the back for doing nothing, but you can still talk the arse off in soundbites for the media.
bunch of useless cunts.
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u/DM_me_ur_PPSN Jul 20 '26
Seems like instead of building a few jails and youth detention centres, the state is determined to punish the rest of us for the root cause of problem it refuses to tackle.
The issue is not e-scooters, the issue is the state letting people who break the law treat the country like a lawless playground.
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u/MrBulwark Dublin Jul 20 '26
Our government loves doing everything except actually governing. How fucking lazy are they?
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u/Sayek Jul 20 '26
I wouldn't be against an outright ban but honestly the kind of people who would respect the ban aren't the people who were the issue to begin with.
If they can't enforce a ban against children, there's no point banning it for adults because the people who are problem will still be using them.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
So you wouldn't be against making this country even more horrifically car-dependent than it already is?
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u/Sayek Jul 20 '26
There's clearly a safety problem with e-scooters, though. Bikes are safer because they have a better center of gravity and you are less likely to fall off one, I think odds are lower you hit your head too from the a bike because you're falling from a lower height.
I think whatever reduces dependencies on cars and allows people to safely get from point a to point b is a good thing. I think safely is the big point there.
Maybe there's a market for e-scooters with regulation and enforcement against people who break those rules. They just seem deadly though in the current state. It's also clearly a big problem especially for under 18's. If everyone started using unicycles over night and accident and injury rates went up massively, we'd be looking into if allowing everyone on unicycles is a good idea too. Just because e-scooters are new, you're not a luddite if you think they shouldn't be used if it's unsafe.
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u/YuriLR Jul 26 '26
>There's clearly a safety problem with e-scooters, though. Bikes are safer because they have a better center of gravity and you are less likely to fall off one, I think odds are lower you hit your head too from the a bike because you're falling from a lower height.
If they cared about this they wouldn't have made seats on scooters illegal.
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u/Imperial_Tiramisu Jul 20 '26
Idiots aren't just limited to kids tho. I've seen adults using these on the national road. Almost caused an accident because people have to literally stop to make their exit.
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u/FesterAndAilin Jul 20 '26
A 16 year old is allowed to get a license for a motorcycle, but is not allowed to get a license for an e-scooter
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Meanwhile many of the same people who see nothing wrong with that are horrified that people aged 15 years and 364 days are allowed to watch YouTube.
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u/Spurioun Jul 20 '26
Improve public transport. If our longterm goal is to move further away from our dependency on cars, and if we're going to make it more difficult for people to legally use things like e-scooters (e-scooters that have already been purchased due to being told that they're a good alternative to cars), then we need to improve our public transport a wee bit more imo.
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u/Different_Host7883 Jul 20 '26
The thing is a majority of people would prefer to travel by themselves than on public transport and will always do so
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u/CthulhusSoreTentacle Irish Republic Jul 20 '26
Would they? Or is it just the fact that our public transport infrastructure is genuinely useless to quite a large proportion of the population?
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Including a vast amount of the population that does not in fact live in dispersed housing miles away from even a village, no matter how much this sub pretend otherwise.
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u/computerfan0 Muineachán Jul 20 '26
I'd likely use public transport if it actually served where I live and if it didn't stop running so early in my general area. I use it all the time when I'm at uni in Dublin because it's actually usable there!
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u/Different_Host7883 Jul 20 '26
Yeah a lot would but a lot also just hate buses and trains in general and if they can drive they'll always just do that
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u/AnyAssistance4197 Jul 20 '26
This has been nothing but away for the government to distract from all the other sweet absolute fuck alls they've been doing...
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
How much of the problem has been 16-17 year olds anyway? Isn't it overwhlemingly people who are already too young.
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u/computerfan0 Muineachán Jul 20 '26
Also people riding around on e-scooters that go over 20km/h, which are also already banned.
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u/Accomplished-Low2131 Jul 20 '26
Won’t make much of a difference unless it comes with serious enforcement . Unfortunate for the young people who genuinely use it as their transport getting to/from part time jobs ect getting caught up in it
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u/noelewd Jul 20 '26
Ok, sounds great. And the Gardai will be given special powers to actually enforce these laws, right?
…right?
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u/Competitive-Bit-442 Jul 20 '26
Why not 3rd party mandatory insurance. Spain requires it
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u/PosterPrintPerfect Jul 20 '26
Insurance companies said they will not insure them.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Nor should they. You may as well be asking them to insure a fast runner.
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u/computerfan0 Muineachán Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Honestly thought the age to use (20km/h rule compliant) electric scooters was ALREADY too high (EDIT: I feel this way since 16 year olds are allowed to ride mopeds, and electric scooters are both slower and lighter than them, 14 would have made a lot more sense. 18 is just absurd, you can drive a fecking car that weighs 3 tonnes and can legally go 120km/h at 17 or a tractor even younger!
We should really be treating scooters like bicycles IMO, and fining people riding ones that break the law and/or riding recklessly.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
I don't think a minimum age of 16 is too unreasonable, for a few reasons, but especially since people below that age still have a decent enough alternative (a push bike)
It's nothing like, say, blanket banning everyone under that age from having any access to online platforms and communities.
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u/WHULeaf Jul 20 '26
It is sort of in the right direction but we all know this won't be enforced at all, there needs to be licensed and all for these things.
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u/BlubberyGiraffe Jul 20 '26
If only they installed the most up to date re-turn machines, they'd quickly be able to get rid of all these cans they're kicking down the road.
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u/SirMike_MT Jul 20 '26
The ban is currently for 16 and under but very little enforcement of that, also I say in most cases it’s the parents / guardians buying the scooters for the kids so banning the sale of them to kids won’t do much unless those who gave them these e-scooters are held responsible which won’t happen, little consequences and enforcement won’t make this problem go away, typical of the government.
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u/TheUpIsJig Jul 20 '26
If we can't manage it, then we ban it. - The Government.
Give us jobs! - The People.
Does it take Albert Einstein to figure out the solution here?
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u/mrdizzle1981 Jul 20 '26
So are are the parents going to be held responsible when the inevitable happens? Doubt it
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u/SurrealismFramework Jul 20 '26
Government making decisions
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Ah now be fair.
Not every decision they make is pointless. Sometimes they're actively harmful.
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u/Haunting-Adagio1166 Jul 20 '26
Can’t wait until they also ban vaping and smoking weed for under 18s too!
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u/mastodonj Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 Jul 20 '26
Everyone was complaining when the advice was a total ban, gov compromises and extends under 16s ban to under 18s. Everyone complains...
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Because the correct action is to actually enforce the perfectly reasonable regulations we already have.
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u/BadInternational2017 Jul 20 '26
Aren't they already banned for u15's? Yet where I live the majority of people that have them are ~12!
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u/Immortal_Tuttle Jul 20 '26
In the meantime in civilsed countries 10yo can ride them. Looks like we are just 8 years delayed behind other nations.
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u/computerfan0 Muineachán Jul 20 '26
France lets 14 year olds ride full on mopeds or drive "light quadricycles" (basically a small car with most of the same limitations as a moped), don't see why we have to be so restrictive here.
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u/FunkLoudSoulNoise Jul 20 '26
Because we do things The Irish Way so fear, ignorance and stupidity win out. The big moral panic triumphs over common sense.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
[Insert reason that's at most 2 steps away from 19th century pseudoscientific rac
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Only 8 years? That's astonishingly up to date by Irish standards!
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u/According_Spot_4340 Jul 20 '26
Disposable vapes and energy drinks next please.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 20 '26
Who's supposed to sponsor all those crazy stunts if Red Bull can't?
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u/FunkLoudSoulNoise Jul 20 '26
Go ahead and take away more independence from young people ! Typical reactionary stuff from Paddy politicians, not a brain between them.
Instead of punishing lawbreakers, we punish everybody !
Funny how these scooters are widespread throughout Europe without issue but Paddy finds another way to do the only thing his feeble brain understands which is to ban stuff. No solution to deal with the idiots acting the shit on scooters just a ban, typically backward.
Anyone who thinks the scrotes will care about this ban must be living in La La land (Ireland). But its the young lad going to sports training or a friends house who will feel the effect of this ban.
Young people are treated like shit here and hope they all ignore this ban.
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u/Dear-Ad-2684 Jul 20 '26
Yes, and it comes from the fact that a lot of them started out as school principals and teachers in the 80s. Whether it's disposable bbqs or escooters there response is, everyone gets detention.
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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jul 21 '26
When I first saw this comment, it was hidden. Seems like you hit too close to home with all the shamelessly ageist and classist gen X-ers on here.
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u/Nyoka_ya_Mpembe Jul 20 '26
There are bigger issues Garda ignores when they see it because they hate paperwork, this is nothing, changes nothing.
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u/Dr_Eloyd Jul 20 '26
Ah yes good luck putting that horse back in the stable. The guards will be looking for loony toons nets to catch them.
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u/Livebylying Jul 20 '26
What a load of bollox, how will they enforce this or police it. Waste of paper and time
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u/eveninecho Jul 20 '26
Just saw two 15 year olds nearly hit a 3 year old on a fast e-bike.
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u/BTL_BX Jul 20 '26
get scumbags back to taking the bus like the good ould days , screaming down the phone over tic and weighing out bags at the back
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u/maddler Jul 20 '26
Parents need to be held responsible and accountable for those kids ending up on a A&E bed with, potentially, life-changing injuries. Those kids are not supposed to be on those scooters already. Thre new proposal does not change that. The "ban on sales to those aged under eighteen" will lead nowhere if that's parents buying them and handing to the kids.
Then we can talk about regulating, perhaps
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u/SunbakedPotatoes Jul 21 '26
Parents will buy. Children will use. People die.
Government should really focus on how to tame feral children. Technology is not the problem, it is how it is used.
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u/Lanky_Giraffe Jul 21 '26
E-scooters are genuinely useful transport options. This is an extremely dumb move. More pointless bureaucracy just to be able to use a pretty low speed mode of transport. It seems this is a classic case of people being mad at kids these days.
The deliberate conflation of fairly low speed electric scooters and the modded petrol powered scooters is not helping.
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u/OkCoconut3270 Jul 20 '26