Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport

Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association

2:00 am

Mr. Paul Jackman:

We met the agricultural contractors' association, which was lobbying to get additional funds from the Department of the environment to the local authorities to let them do four runs. The funding available to local authorities is for two runs, as Mr. Hyland referred to earlier, for 2 m cuts. This suits pedestrians, but hauliers are forced out onto the wrong side of the road. It is about doing an extra run. At minimum, three should be done. Four runs would make it efficient for the double run of the tractor. That is what we are looking for. It would be expensive. Heavier growth would be encountered in the first year, but thereafter it would be a continuum of what we are at.

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