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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was this issue flagged at that meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the €12.5 million shortfall an accurate figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is for a six-month period up to the end of June.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is there an agreement in principle between the Department of Transport, the Minister for Transport and TII that there will be a deferral until 1 July?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that an agreement in principle?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are we just ironing out the detail of the cost the State will have to cover in terms of the shortfall?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: All of the PPPs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: All eight of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When does Mr. Masterson expect them to report back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has TII given a commitment to the Department of Transport as to when it will come back with the options?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could there be an announcement and a firming up of this in terms of giving absolute clarity to the public that there will be a deferral of any increase until 1 July? Could that be given by the end of this week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could it be by the end of next week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Dáil is obviously concluding on 17 December. Does it require any legislative measures, statutory instruments or anything like that from the Government?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Of any form?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Obviously that is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That week, from Monday, 12 December to Saturday,17 December is effectively more than two weeks away. Is there any way Mr. Masterson could expedite matters because it is of such critical importance and request the bringing forward of the TII board meeting on a single-issue item, and equally ask that the boards of the various public private partnerships would also bring their board meetings...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The committee will ask that Mr. Masterson would go back-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will press as a committee that everything be done to bring absolute clarity to this matter. As next Friday week is 11 December, we would ideally like to have clarity by that week. Effectively, it is not quite two weeks but it certainly affords ten days so we ask that minds be brought to bear to give absolute clarity to hard-pressed drivers, ordinary people, businesses and hauliers that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: In the interests of clarity, will Mr. Masterson and TII meet with the hauliers on this matter? Perhaps we could get a commitment tonight that if the road hauliers make request in writing to TII that it meet with them as a matter of priority?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Maybe I can add to that. It is my understanding that the PPP contracts are based on a certain volume of traffic. If that volume is not met, TII makes a balancing payment. It is like the public service application pro forma. During the period of Covid, were the top-up payments from TII much higher than normal in respect of the PPPs?