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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will come in on that point, with the indulgence of Deputy Ó Murchú. How would the communication from TII have come to the Department of Transport? Would that have been via email or verbal? What form did it take?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would TII have alerted Department officials or the Minister?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did that happen in early September?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did that give rise to any red flags in the Department? That was almost budget time. The budget took place in early September. Major supports were being announced in the budget to address the cost of living. Did the communication from TII raise any red flags among the Department officials at the time?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: The notification to the Department came almost two and half months prior to TII making the announcement, as it did last Thursday. That was almost two and a half months after TII flagged the increase to the Department. The Minister of State will appreciate that an ordinary person looking in on these proceedings would ask how did TII present such an increase at a time of serious problems with...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is TII required to make the Department and the Minister aware that it is approving these increases?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: When was the last time there was an increase?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Was there an increase earlier this year?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: To how many tolls did that apply?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: The increase was announced in December 2021 for how many toll roads? How many toll roads are there in total?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: There are eight public private partnership roads?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: So eight are public private partnership, PPP, toll roads and then there is the M50-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Were the eight toll road increases announced in December 2021 related totally to the PPP roads? Is that correct?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: For the purposes of clarity, were the increases that TII announced last year just purely in relation to the PPP toll roads?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: So it was in relation to the total of ten roads, which is the eight PPP roads plus the M50 and the port tunnel. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Are the increases required to be approved by the Minister for Transport or the Department before Transport Infrastructure Ireland can implement them?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is TII required to inform the Department that it is going to bring about those increases?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Do they do this is a matter of practice as distinct from a legal point?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: With regard to the increases that were announced in December 2021, the Minister of State said there were no increases for toll charges for cars since 2013. That was roughly eight years previously. So there had not been an increase for a number of years. Why was there suddenly a further increase in the space of a year?