Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is goods news for people who travel on the M1 because it will take hundreds, hopefully thousands, of cars off that route. The roads on the approach to the city are very narrow and it takes a significant amount of time to get through Gardiner Street. The tunnel is regularly congested at particular times of the day. I have previously raised the issue of congestion at the barriers caused by the failure of the system to recognise toll tags and so on. This is also a problem at the East Link. Increasingly, there is need for the barriers there to be manned to enable people to get through because mechanisms are not functioning properly. I do not expect the witnesses to be able to respond on that issue today but I would welcome a written response on it.