Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2023-02-01
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

It is not clear because there is no reference to the carriage of goods. The only reference to the carriage of goods is a prohibitive reference that is attached to the PPT. There is no positive reference to the carriage of goods in the definition relating to bicycles. It is unclear. It is sometimes the case that if one kind of vehicle is prohibited from carrying goods but it is not made clear that another category of vehicle is allowed to carry goods, a presumption of leakage between the two could be created. I do not need to press the amendment at this point because the Minister is clear about the different purposes of the PPT, but I am not satisfied we have been given the reassurance we need in terms of cargo bikes within the pedal bicycle definition. We might come back to that on Report Stage.

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