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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: No, but the infrastructure, how does this relate to the creation of emissions? Would Mr. O'Neill say that stopping at a toll barrier contributes to air pollution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Have they carried out any study on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Is it raising its head as an issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: We do not have a toll barrier on the M50.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: I will tell Mr. O’Neill where it is an issue. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, study on the barrier at the Dublin Port Tunnel says that we have the worst of NOx emissions in the country in this part of the city. It is caused primarily by the fact that we have a toll barrier. Each time a vehicle stops, it expends a litre of fuel into the atmosphere. Has there been any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Is there not another way to manage that? Would they not have said the same thing about the M50?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Is it not the case that we need to look after the citizens' lung health? Here, NOx emissions have been way in excess of what is depicted under the European average. We are paying fines on the basis of the NOx emissions expended in this area. These are huge fines. The figure is in the millions. Is there no other way? I do not know of any tunnel in Europe that has a toll barrier as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Would Mr. O’Neill not consider maybe even traffic calming on the basis of speed control? Surely, something else is better than expending a litre of fuel for every vehicle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Yes, at 80 km/h. Would it not be better from a health perspective to introduce something that does not expend a litre of fuel? Money is being spent on paying fines for the whole year because of expending the fuel. As well as this, money is spent for somebody to operate the barrier. It cannot be cost effective, never mind good from a health perspective.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Just to finish up, is it then the case that toll barriers have never been considered as part of the carbon footprint? Do toll barriers not come into the equation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Could we have a note on how that is assessed and on how the carbon footprint-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Chair.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Our country is currently facing the greatest housing crisis since the foundation of the State. At the heart of our housing delivery problem and the requirement to increase supply in this precarious market is the application of planning policy. Some 80% of strategic housing development, SHD, grants of planning permission that were judicially reviewed were...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the Minister. In regard to the Minister being familiar with the 26-page judgment and him making a statement like that, this was not a disagreement. It was ignorance of basic planning policy and the legal framework. Mr. Justice Humphreys spelled it out in black and white, saying that irrespective of the law of the land, the regulator fails to operate within...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: This is a landmark case, Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Who regulates the regulator?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: What will that mean?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: Last Friday, a landmark judgment in the case of Cork County Council v. the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Attorney General and the Planning Regulator laid bare the rot that exists at the heart of the planning system. I preface my remarks by saying that this is not a criticism of the Office of the Planning Regulator as distinct from the manner in which the current...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: One of the headlines when the Mahon tribunal was completed and the creation of the Office of the Planning Regulator was announced was, "New regulator will restore confidence in planning system". I prefaced my opening remarks by saying that this is not a criticism of the Office of the Planning Regulator, as distinct from the manner in which the current officeholder is discharging his duties....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (11 Nov 2021)

Verona Murphy: The Minister of State is despicable and his answer is despicable. He is spending the taxpayers' money frivolously.