Results 3,201-3,220 of 26,014 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The question is a very good one. In summary, did the PPP companies come to TII looking for an increase at the end of 2021 and this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There was no process between 2013 and 2022.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: But there was no increase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why is there an increase in the current climate when people are under so much pressure with the cost of living and fuel costs. Surely a red flag was raised or, at the very minimum, an amber light went on to signal that TII should not go ahead with these increases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did the amber light not go off that, in the current climate with people under so much pressure financially, bringing through these increases would put a huge burden on the travelling public? That relates to across the entire network, whether it is the M50 or all the other motorway projects, but excluding the tunnel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did the TII raise the matter with the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When the TII went to the Department of Transport in July, did anyone in the Department say or did the Minister say they were concerned about the rates of increase this would give rise to for the people who use the motorway network, both the M50 and all the other PPPs? Did that come up for discussion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Had the TII met any of the Ministers at that point to discuss the issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will cover a couple of things for the sake of clarity. The income for next year will be €180 million on the M50. The tunnel will be €20 million. There will be €10 million between the M4 and the M1. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is €210 million in total. What were the respective figures pre-Covid in 2019?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The witnesses are bright individuals. They brought in a 10% increase for the M50 for 2022 to 2023 . That is a 30 cent increase for a motor car. Some 10 cent was put on in 2022. Between 2022 and 2023 we are looking at a 40 cent increase, which is 13%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I was going with unregistered. Unregistered was €3.10 in 2021. It has gone up to €3.50 in 2023. That is a 40 cent increase. That is a 13% increase between the two years. In one year it has gone from €3.20 to €3.50, which is a 30 cent increase. That is 10%. I expect that when TII saw those figures, it must have been aware that it was a significant increase....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did it not consider one or two things? The first is not to give them the maximum increase because they can only go to the maximum increase. The second is looking to the State to step in on an ad hocbasis in view of the fact we are in a war-time economic situation with Ukraine. It could have gone to Government at the time and said it was of the view that what was being imposed was too high...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does TII have that discretion to say "no"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When we speak about the maximum increase, is that the correct terminology or is it the increase based on the consumer price index for the previous 12 months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the public private partnerships, PPPs, put in for an increase for based on the consumer price index, can TII refuse to agree to that increase with the toll companies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The public needs to understand and is entitled to an explanation.