New Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly should resign within six months if gardaí cannot get to grips with cracking down on scrambler bikes, a Government TD has said. It also gives gardaí power to seize scrambler bikes that are being driven dangerously. However, they could not say how many of these seizures were related to dangerous driving under the Road Traffic Act 2023. “If [former Garda Commissioner] Drew Harris was still here, I'd have called for him to resign, because he didn't operationalise the law,” Mr McAuliffe said. Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly.

Source: Irish Examiner February 02, 2026 15:11 UTC