Terry Brennan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Barry for his presentation. I assume the NRA has an input into the running of the service stations and, if so, will he explain the difference in fuel costs as one approaches Dublin? Should we not have a uniform cost given that there is the same supplier, same distributor and same concern?

The central reservation barriers appear to differ in type and strength from county to county. Some are of the wire rope type which are being taken out of use in other European Union countries. The United Arab Emirates retired of the order of 40 km of the wire rope-type barriers - I call them the cheese-cutter type - while they are still being erected here in some places. Perhaps they meet EU regulations but I would hate to see a 20 tonne truck or an articulated truck hitting one of them and the catastrophe that would be caused. To avoid that, the system in the US is that if a truck or car goes out of control it cannot traverse onto oncoming traffic because of the width of the dyke between both sides of motorway.

Has the NRA considered taking a wider stretch at the initial stage to make it impossible for any type of vehicle to move into oncoming traffic?