Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not trying to give TII the get-out-of-jail or defence mechanism, but I am trying to interrogate. TII is saying that the contract says we can do this, so we can do this. I am trying to tease out whether it is just massive additional revenue TII is getting with no extra increase or not. I would like to have more detail on some of what the witnesses are telling me – not just from them. With the exception of the Port Tunnel and the M50, TII is kind of the regulator as much as it is the operator of the PPPs. If I could talk to the operators of the N6, N4 or N-whatever-it-is or N7, I could ask how much their costs and lighting have gone up. For example, whether costs have gone up 30% and the toll charge has gone up 10%, or the toll charge has gone up 10% and the operating costs 5% is the kind of question I am trying to ask.

On the M50, what percentage of vehicles that go through every day are tagged versus no concession at all versus vehicle registration? The Chair and I are both accountants and like to look at the figures.