Louise Byrne

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152 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Aug

Louise Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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How do we enforce these things?
And, you know, you can easily turn this back and say, well, it's the guardie's fault.
It's Justin Kelly's fault.
But if they are not being given the legislation and the empowerment and the training that they need, well, then it's a government fault.
the issue as well is there's a difference between having the power of pursuit and being empowered to pursue someone and that's what the Gardaí are saying and I did a piece on this around the time that Gracelyn so tragically lost her life and I'm speaking to TDs in areas where scrambler use is
just completely off the Richter scale.
And what they were saying is it doesn't have to be a thing of pursuit.
You can watch the child or whoever is using these vehicles.
Where are they going home to?
Don't necessarily follow them.
Knock on the door.
Go afterwards.
It doesn't have to be a case where you're chasing these kids or whoever it is through public parks and all the rest of it.
Because the Garda Car obviously can't get through the public parks.
Do you put them on bikes?
Do you put them like you have in the UK?
Do you have Gardaí who are especially trained on driving scrambler bikes?
And there's, you know, all these kind of different ways of looking at it.
But if you have a case where, like Sinéad said, you have a registration system or you have in France and in Spain the insurance that you need to actually use these things, then you can follow them home.
It doesn't have to be an issue of pursuit that puts everyone in danger.
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