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- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Between 2019 and 2021 and between this year and next year what has the State paid and what will it pay to the toll company there? That is one of the risk sharing models, is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How much was paid in 2021?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How much is it expected to be paid in 2022?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that in total? That is a 40 year contract, is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that a 40 year contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The witnesses said it has defined contracts with the companies. They can come to TII every year to get an increase based on the consumer price index. TII needs to check that is correct with CSO figures. If they are correct, then TII cannot withhold the increase. Is that correct? With what is happening in Ireland and the world with the cost of living crisis, did it occur to anyone in TII...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is within the remit of TII on the M50 and the Dublin Port Tunnel. On the M50, the TII has taken the same CPI increase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did the TII have discretion not to take that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: In the current environment, particularly with the M50 and the level of traffic using it, did it not occur to TII that what was being imposed was severe, that it had discretion in this area and that it did not have to bring in the increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the witness saying that the increase in the toll was used as a mechanism to reduce the number of cars using the M50?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has that always been the policy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about people with cars or haulage companies that need to use the M50? They do not have the option to use public transport or cycle. They have to use it. How can the increase be justified on the basis that TII is using it to reduce the level of traffic on the M50? I find that hard to credit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How long has the pricing mechanism been a policy of TII to reduce the traffic?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It was not laid down in the granting of planning that TII would use the cost of tolling as a traffic reduction mechanism.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: On mature recollection, was it the appropriate decision? In terms of the outcry among the users of the M50 who do so for necessity, not for luxury, do the witnesses now accept that TII has discretion not to increase the toll? I ask the witnesses to reflect on that and recommend withholding of the increase to their board.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: However, that deferral is only until the end of June next year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There is a further six months thereafter in 2023.