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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: They will have a tag as opposed to vehicle recognition. I have vehicle recognition and I go through it perhaps five or six times a year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: There is no logic in somebody not having the vehicle registration, because it costs nothing and it saves money. I do not know what the full charge is now, but I think it was €3.10, €2.60 and €2.10 or something like that at one stage. Even if a person only uses it once a year, he or she might as well sign up and get the vehicle registration. Is that a fair point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: TII should not agree more, because I am trying to reduce its revenue. However, from a customer’s perspective, there is no logic to somebody not having a tag or not having a vehicle account registration that takes money from their credit card, unless they happen to not have a credit or debit card or something.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I am kind of hoping perhaps somebody here will pick up on it. What percentage of people are paying the full charge? TII clearly collects revenue and it knows how much revenue it takes in. It knows, presumably, how many paid the €3.10 versus €2.60 versus €2.10. That is what I am looking for. Percentage-wise, how many people are paying the full rate without discount?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Those 12% of people should register their vehicles. On the fines, how much does TII make out of that? I know it is not the purpose of them, but they are quite punitive if someone does not understand what is happening. What percentage of TII's total revenue on the M50 is fines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Pre-Covid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Out of how much?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. So about 5%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Still, €8 million or €9 million is collected in fines from people who did not pay their charge on time. Does TII collect all those fines? I sometimes read about court cases where somebody has been done for 325 charges of never paying - just driving through every day for months and ignoring TII's charges. Do they always get pursued and can TII always collect whatever the fine is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Some 3%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: TII has about €9 million in fines and only 3% of it is not collected.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Some 3% of the revenue owed on the M50. Mr. Masterson just told me that the fines are approximately 5% of the revenue. Is he telling me that TII does not collect more than half the fines? I am not trying to play games here; I am just trying to interrogate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Fair enough. I am just trying to dig into-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: We only started at 7 p.m. If we were here since 2.30 p.m., I would accept the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I would be interested to know-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: We see court cases where somebody was hit for a huge sum and one wonders if the person could ever have paid it. The fine could be €50,000 or whatever. The fines are punitive and you cannot get blood out of a stone. We have been told the fines are approximately €9 million a year but there was no mention of how much of those fines----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I accept that and I am happy to wait for the figures. The point I am making is that the figures I want Mr. Walsh to bring back are those showing how much of the fines that are levied are collected. That is what I am seeking, as opposed to what percentage fines make up of the entire revenue or whatever. Has TII ever thought about reducing the toll charge at certain times instead of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: That is a separate issue. I am asking about the possibility of variable pricing at different times of the day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Has TII investigated whether, if the by-laws could be changed, it would be a good idea to incentivise people to travel at less busy times of the day and thereby reduce the pressure at peak times, for everybody's benefit? I would get to pay a lower toll if I travel at a quieter time, which facilitates me. It also facilitates those who cannot travel at any time other than 5.30 p.m. on a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: How doable is it to change the toll schemes? Are they fixed forever?