Hi everyone, over the past couple of days the
Hi everyone, over the past couple of days the Irish government have been speaking out against e-scooters and Mihal Martin has said he is considering a ban on e-scooters. Now, this follows a report from Children's Health Ireland in relation to those who suffer injuries because of e-scooters. Now, since January 2021 until August 2025, there has been 1,130 incidents regarding e-scooters. Now, there has been also more startlingly 12 traumatic brain injuries for children between June 2024 and May 2025.
And traumatic brain injuries are increasing 50% year on year. Now, with this has sparked the government into action. Or has it? Interestingly enough, the government actually sat on their hands over the past number of years while they were extolling the virtues of the e-scooters in terms of driving towards the green agenda and the green urban revolution, or so they were pushing along. And opened the door to an unregulated market and an unregulated and unenforced regulations as well as that uh take.
Place in Ireland. Because since 2024, there has been regulations in place in terms of the speed that e-scooters can travel at, 20 km an hour, and in terms of age of people that can use e-scooters, 16 years plus. And there is other recourse through the road traffic acts to deal with those who are driving at excessive speed, dangerous driving, and all these other related issues as well taking place. But, at the same time, the Irish government now is coming down to try and.
Ban e-scooters. Now, let me know what you think of e-scooters in terms of the menace and probably plague it's causing uh right across Dublin and in many other parts of Ireland also. We've seen the serious incidents and accidents taking place also in terms of people being injured by reckless users on footpaths and other incidents in relation to people flying around the place with no protection whatsoever, no helmets, and we all see the conditions and states of our capitals roads in for.
Instance with our many potholes and leaves you with next to no protection when you're flying around on one of those at probably a modified rate of well in excess of the permitted allowed speed limit currently. There's also issues in Dublin in particular with so many of those electric bikes flying around the place as well. And particularly in many who work for various companies, we can name a few of them, Deliveroo and others have that rampant pace around our capital's.
Streets
Streets. But again, completely unchecked, completely unregulated to a massive extent and unenforced regulations when regulations do occur. And let me know what you think of them. Let me know what you think of the government's proposed ban. And as I said, they themselves will have created a problem and they're coming up with a so-called solution to let it get out of hand completely. And there are issues with criminality and other issues as well. But why don't they deal with the.
“But again, completely unchecked, completely unregulated to a massive extent and unenforced regulations when regulations do occur”
Issues of criminality? It's a soft target. They won't deal with the other issues as well in terms of addressing it, in terms of addressing those systemic issues of criminality taking place in many of our communities around Dublin and right across Ireland. And they would argue that they are working in the public interest. Well, if they were, why don't they put it out to public consultation? I'm sure the vast majority of people would have no interest in what the government say.
Because they know that they don't represent their interests and they should be dictated to by the people. There should be proper public consultations, not the public consultations they set up around removing cars from various parts of Dublin, which has made mobility next to impossible, especially for those who are elderly or disabled around our capital streets as well. But, they won't talk about that. They'll have their own cobbled-together public consultation with their cronies involved with it and.
The vast majority of people won't be part of it. And that's what they want, isn't it? They don't want people to be involved in these decision-making uh processes. And they'll say they're dealing with the crisis where they themselves have helped perpetuated and worsen it, which is the same as the regulations they said were in place but completely unenforced around those regulations. Not to mention those retailers making big money from it as well and the modification of these.
E-scooters as well and e-bikes as well, which work at quite uh uh speeds just uh well above what is permitted. And we all see the effects of that on our footpaths and on our city's streets as well. So, let me know in the comments what you think and have a proper debate around this, a proper discussion and uh your opinion on what's taking place around e-scooters. We've seen the issues with scramblers. Uh absolutely horrific in terms of the.
Deaths recently in recent times, particularly of Grace Lynch in Finglas as well. Uh absolutely horrific. Um you know, it's just absolutely awful to watch what's taking place. But, again, there needs to be regulations and regulations need to be enforced. But, in Ireland, it's the Wild West. There's never any enforcement of any lax regulations that they put in place in the first place. And then they come up and they try and come up with a solution years later.
After the serious incidents take place
After the serious incidents take place. I'm sure many of those who use this, many of those uh children for instance have used it and who've uh fell fell to incidents for using them. It's absolutely just um really mind-boggling. And um really stark reminder to what's taken place on our city as well, the city streets and many other urban parts of Ireland. So, again, let me know in the comments what you think. Are you for an outright ban on.
E-scooters or what do you think? So, thanks so much for all the support with my videos. Really appreciate them. And from Dublin today, slán go foil.
