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
11:10 am
Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour) | Oireachtas source
The Comptroller and Auditor General's report comments on the studies on the M50 to which Mr. O'Mahony refers, in July and September 2010 and March and June 2011, which found that 7% did not have current motor tax. Is the M50, as an isolated point in the country, a representative sample? Not everybody on the western seaboard would travel regularly on the M50. There might be different compliance rates in urban as opposed to rural areas and so on. Does Mr. O'Mahony think that figure is accurate and that the M50, as a single point of sampling, is effective?
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