Noel Rock

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The Big Tech Show · Maybe it's time to ban e-scooters in Ireland · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

Yeah, it's the same as how airplanes are beginning to ban battery packs now as well.

The standards that are applied to say phone manufacturing batteries just aren't applied in the same rigorous way in terms of the lithium ion batteries.

Do they apply that to e-bikes?

the ban on board.

I think there's a bit of a... Forgive me now, Adrian.

I think there's a bit of a difference between how Dublin Bus, Irish Rail and BusAire approach this issue.

So I'm not entirely sure if all three ban both bikes and scooters.

I think, like, and again, we're both going off kind of muscle memory here to a certain extent.

I don't think e-bikes are banned on Irish Rail at the time being, but I think there is a ban on bikes in general at certain peak hours of the day, if I'm not mistaken.

some 12 year old 13 year old telling their parents yeah but he has one down the road why can't you get me one you don't love me anymore yeah and i mean like a ban and a ban would be in a sense a pity given the optimistic position with which i would have viewed them back in 2018 2019 however

I would definitely not be blinkered about this.

There's clearly a mounting case for a ban to be put in place.

And I think the vehicles and there are vehicles are kind of in the last chance saloon now, essentially.

I think government has kind of one shot at trying to introduce friction to the process and trying to minimize the dangers and the ills associated with scooters.

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