Results 5,021-5,040 of 8,745 for speaker:Verona Murphy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: If you have to use a prepay card, you have to stop. You expend a litre of fuel every time. At Dublin Port Tunnel every day, people expend 40,000 l of fuel because of a barrier. This costs hauliers €80,000 per day. The emissions output is 37,000 tonnes per annum, just for TII to have a barrier that Mr. Maher says is for safety. I have raised this for six years, including the two...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I have not concluded, because we are getting nowhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I will clarify the point I am trying to make. Mr. Masterson is saying that we have a provision in contracts that is useless because he cannot get those concerned to comply. They offer something that is not environmentally friendly. Are we moving with the science or not? If the system is not working, I would expect Mr. Masterson and his colleagues to give the Government the relevant...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Where is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Where?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: That is a stop–go system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: It is a different system-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: It is a different system entirely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: We will not agree to disagree. TII has been using a barrier on a route that is toll free for trucks. In this day and age, TII is allowing nitrogen oxide emissions amounting to 37,000 tonnes per year, for no good reason and costing hauliers €80,000 per day. That is the effect. What is the solution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: What is the solution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: It is an express lane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Why has TII not considered a tunnel with no barrier to determine how it operates?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: What is its height?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Maher knows we actually had to create and implement legislation to reduce the height limit of the tunnel because such a balls was made of its height when it was being built. That is the truth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Whether it is or not, it is the truth. We had to reduce the height limit because the tunnel was built too low.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: My problem is that, although everything is pointed towards climate change and the environment, we are operating a system that points towards neither. It actually penalises to the point that it costs the country money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I am sorry, but had I finished? No. I had a little bit of time. I have to go when I am finished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: The point on the discounts is that TII is giving out gold-plated contracts in that Mr. Masterson is telling me it cannot force the operators to institute the 10% discount, in the same way that there are express lanes all over Europe for trucks. They do not stop: a barrier lifts 100 yards from where a tag is recognised, in which case there is no waste of fuel or buildup of nitrogen oxide...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: They did prepay. Is Mr. Masterson denying that? Did they prepay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: That is a lie. That is a barefaced lie.