Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Ger Hyland:

We have called on it to move back the reader to allow the toll barrier to lift. We are still going through at 5 km/h or 10 km/h.

Part of the reason there are trucks in towns is because they are avoiding the tolls. It is now cheaper to go through the towns than it is to go on the toll roads, by the time we take into account the additional fuel we use to stop-start and the additional time it takes.

For most tolls in Ireland, the cost for us to go through the barrier is €7.

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