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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The witnesses might be early risers, but they might be early to bed. We are both.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Senator has made an eminently sensible suggestion. Whether the witnesses agree, it would feed into the model of trying to reduce traffic on the M50. What is required to change the by-laws?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: From whom does TII need direction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will come back to this issue. The first six months of next year are covered. When we come back to this, we might look at what the Senator is proposing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The committee is inclusive. I assure Mr. Walsh everybody will be represented at any meeting to discuss this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: This is a good exchange but I ask-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will intervene, Deputy Murphy, if I may. Was provision for a discount included in the contracts that were negotiated with the operators of the tolls?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. Under the contracts as put out----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: ----is there a provision for a discount? They appear to be standard contracts. I have looked through them all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could it be fleshed out for us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could the Deputy flesh it out for members?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has the Deputy concluded her points on the discount issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Just to bring clarity on the discount-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: TII has agreed to meet the road hauliers to discuss these issues. Could Mr. Maher deal with the issue the Deputy raised regarding the toll barrier?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I do not know if that is a curse word but we will strike it out anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Point taken. Can I-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I hope the meeting between the road hauliers and TII will bring some common sense to bear on this. Could I go back to a topic the Deputy raised? I am still a little-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy was not finished. She had a question on discounts for Mr. Masterson to follow up on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the provision of the discount is in the contracts, why can TII not say to the operators that it needs to be provided under the contracts? It seems reasonable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Please.