Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I will try conclude because I know some Deputies wish to come back a second time. The point is that this committee is not in a position to conclude on this matter because we do not have the information.
I find it intriguing that the TII appears to invest taxpayers' money in some service stations on some motorways.
There are other motorways where service stations of no significant difference are built, provided and fully operated by the private sector without the involvement of the Department. The service station I pass at junction 14, at Monasterevin, is privately run. I presume Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, was involved with the one on the M1.
In the interests of road safety there should be service stations where people can pull in every 30 km or 50 km etc. Why did TII not let the private sector put them in and not involve taxpayers' money in them, given that the record proves the private sector has put in good, successful ones at no cost to the Exchequer?
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