Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

No, there is not. There will be a lot of management of traffic in our urban areas. BusConnects projects will, by their nature, restrict car traffic capacity somewhat on each route and corridor, and that will have an effect on Dublin in particular. As I said, the M50 and the approaches to it are at full capacity, and that traffic coming into the city will be constrained because of the Bus Connects routes within the M50 as they evolve and develop. The same will apply in other cities and we have to make sure Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick get the same high-quality infrastructure we are going to put into Dublin. In those circumstances, that, rather than road pricing systems, is going to be the most significant road management system in the coming years.

There are no plans to introduce new road pricing systems. It could be done for some and an argument could be made for a variety of cases, but it is not our approach for the immediate future.