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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I said that but I also acknowledge that there are costs. A perfect road is perfect for a while, but it needs ongoing maintenance. I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Because it is oil-based.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I am not trying to give TII the get-out-of-jail or defence mechanism, but I am trying to interrogate. TII is saying that the contract says we can do this, so we can do this. I am trying to tease out whether it is just massive additional revenue TII is getting with no extra increase or not. I would like to have more detail on some of what the witnesses are telling me – not just from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I do not know. I will defer to the Chair’s knowledge on everything. If a person is driving the M50 twice a day, every day, I presume that person would have a tag. It would be very foolish not to. If a person only drives it once a year, it might not be worth investing in a tag.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Not how many registered users there are, because I could be a registered user and use it once a year. Some 140,000 vehicles go through it every day - 40,000 are X and 40,000 are Y, or whatever. Does Mr. Masterson know the percentages?
- 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-----