Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Mr. Pat Maher:
It starts to deteriorate. Let us take the motorway pavements, for example. Typically you will get about 15 years out of a pavement like that before it has to be renewed and overlaid. As the Senator will be aware, an awful lot of our pavements were built in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and, therefore, many of pavements are coming to a point of demanding significant reinvestment. A major factor of that is the price of bitumen, which has spiked hugely in the current year. It parallels-----
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