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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: What are TII's obligations under environmental objectives to reduce emissions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I am asking about TII's obligations in this regard in the broader context. Understanding that the provision to offer the 10% discount requires stopping the trucks to use a bonus card system is an outrageous proposition and it is not one that is in line either with the national planning framework, our environmental contracts or our climate change objectives. Is that not the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: That means they are gold-plated contracts. If it is not enforceable, it is rubbish to say there is a provision to give a 10% discount.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: They did not offer it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Masterson did not intervene. I am the person who negotiated on this issue. The IRHA developed a tag for the very objective of achieving the 10% discount for hauliers in order that they would not have to pass the cost on to the consumer. Mr. Masterson, in particular, was the roadblock to achieving that. He failed to give any direction to any of the operators to institute the 10%...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: That is what I am saying. The contractors are a law unto themselves. They were given a gold-plated contract. I appreciate what Mr. Walsh said about nobody------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I ask Mr. Masterson to let me finish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Masterson was the roadblock.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I said Mr. Masterson was the roadblock at the time, when I was president of the IRHA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Yes, and Mr. Masterson thought that was fine. What good, then, is the provision for a 10% discount?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: No, all of the obligations-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: There is a provision in them for a discount.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: That is enough. Let me say what prepaid means.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I do not need to flesh it out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I have not concluded, because we are getting nowhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I will clarify the point I am trying to make. Mr. Masterson is saying that we have a provision in contracts that is useless because he cannot get those concerned to comply. They offer something that is not environmentally friendly. Are we moving with the science or not? If the system is not working, I would expect Mr. Masterson and his colleagues to give the Government the relevant...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Where is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Where?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: That is a stop–go system.