Mr. Peter Walsh:

I will speak for myself rather than the authority and the board. I know the board did not take decisions relating to toll charges - really, it was restricted to the M50 eFlow - lightly. From my perspective, our remit and duty as public servants and as an agency of the State is to secure the provision of a safe and efficient network of national roads. The notion that we would go outside of that and concern ourselves with other circumstances that people are having to cope with seems outside of our remit. I cannot see how we can do it.