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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: TII does not get a share of the revenue. It gets a share of the profits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: I am only a driver so I am not looking into the technicality of it but it very much looks like the contracts were constructed in favour of the private partnership as opposed to the general public - not necessarily the taxpayer. Can I ask two more questions because we could go round in circles about money? Has TII ever looked at more tolls on the M50 and reducing the cost of journeys for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: To be fair, the people who are still spending €40 or €50 per week on the M50 some 30 years after it was built and a long time after the State bought it, would question where the benefit for them is. They are not interested in spending money to build the Macroom bypass. They live along the M50 and wanted the benefits of a road that has been paid for. That is all I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: It is not a criticism of TII. I do not mean it in that way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: The problem here is that in this equation, nobody is fighting for Joe driver. That is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: The Cabinet certainly is not and neither is TII.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: May I ask a question? I misunderstood Mr. Walsh earlier on with regard to revenue sharing as opposed to profit sharing. Will he tell me what the €8 million he referred to earlier was?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: This €8 million is the total TII gets from the seven PPPs in the country, the eighth now being back in State control.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: I hope the witnesses will excuse my ignorance because I really feel thick now. Mr. Desmond says there are only two schemes now generating revenue but each of the eight roads has a toll so they must be generating revenue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: The revenue share is a percentage of the revenue and not the revenue itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: That is not what Mr. Walsh said earlier on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: It is now part of the contractual agreement between the PPP company and the public. We have now determined what the revenue share is going to be, which is over and above the------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: I could not understand what the €8 million was. I am not suggesting Mr. Walsh was misleading me. I am just teasing it out. How much of the overall contract, as a percentage, is the revenue share? How does that compare to the profit share?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: What percentage of the revenue from the M3 would be acceptable? What does Transport Infrastructure Ireland get?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: Is TII not getting any revenue from the M3 right now?

Seanad: Broadcasting (Restriction of Salaries) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Regina Doherty: Tomorrow at 9.30 a.m.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2023)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business is No. 1, Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023 – Second Stage, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business, with the opening contribution of the Minister not to exceed ten minutes, group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes, those of all other Senators not to exceed five minutes, and the Minister to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2023)

Regina Doherty: I suggest Senator Kyne’s sympathies are probably misplaced. The Inland Fisheries Ireland saga has a long way to go but, to be fair to the people who are appearing in front of the Committee of Public Accounts this morning, I do not know anybody who does not bring their best game face when they come to sit in front of that committee. As the Senator has said, I believe there is a long...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2023)

Regina Doherty: Yes, I will certainly do that but, more importantly, we will arrange the debate on Seanad reform to try to coincide or to happen before An Taoiseach comes to us in September. I will certainly play my part in trying to get him here as quickly as we can. Senator Gavan spoke this morning about the section 38 and 39 workers. We hear a great number of platitudes with regard to people’s...