Grace’s Law: Minister confirms scrambler bikes to be banned on public roads

Meanwhile, transport minister Darragh O'Brien said he was 'taken aback' by a judge’s decision to ban a garda from driving following a pursuit with a scrambler bike

Darragh O’Brien paid tribute to Grace Lynch and her family, as he vowed that there will be a crackdown on the bikes. File picture

Scrambler bikes will be banned on public roads and in public places from Friday, transport minister Darragh O'Brien has confirmed as he brought plans before Cabinet on Wednesday.

A regulation in the Road Traffic Act 2023 was never signed into law, meaning that ministers were never given the power to ban them in specified places.