Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source
If you have to use a prepay card, you have to stop. You expend a litre of fuel every time. At Dublin Port Tunnel every day, people expend 40,000 l of fuel because of a barrier. This costs hauliers €80,000 per day. The emissions output is 37,000 tonnes per annum, just for TII to have a barrier that Mr. Maher says is for safety. I have raised this for six years, including the two and a half since I was elected, but I am being told only now by TII that there is a solution. I want to know the template for the solution, because there is no toll barrier at any other tunnel in Europe.
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