I express my sympathies to the family and friends of Grace Lynch. I welcome the news today that new legislation to implement a total ban on scrambler use in public spaces will be called Grace's law in her memory. In my constituency of Carlow-Kilkenny over the past year and a half or two years, we have seen an increasing number of scrambler bikes in and on the forest trails around the foothills of Mount Leinster. I know loads of people who have had frightening experiences with scramblers while out walking these trails with young children and dogs. My concern is that the welcome new law and necessary strengthening of enforcement powers for An Garda Síochána will have the unintended consequence of making Coillte's 3,000 km of marked walking trails more appealing to scrambler users and therefore more dangerous for the thousands of walkers who utilise these trails regularly. How does the Government propose to tackle off-road scrambler use on Coillte's land?

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