Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority

11:00 am

Mr. Fred Barry:

We take enforcement action. At a certain point if people are not paying, we hand the matter over to the solicitors. We have sessions in the District Courts on an almost monthly basis where we pursue people for non-payment. Most people come to an arrangement to pay during the course of enforcement proceedings and we end up in the District Court with those who persist in not paying. Some people simply escape. Overseas drivers who do not pay are very hard to pursue. It does not make sense from the point of view of costs to bring proceedings in eastern Europe, for example, to recover a toll.

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