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- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: All the tags were prepaid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: What would Mr. Walsh like me to say? That it was untrue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Masterson knows it is untrue; he was there at the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: That would suit you rightly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I would say it was untrue, and Mr. Masterson knows it because he was-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I know it to be untrue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: No. I was there doing the negotiating.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: It is not a personal view; it is a fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I did not mean to accuse Mr. Masterson of lying, but what he said was an untruth. Well aware of it, he is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: I do. I have one final question relevant to why we are where we are.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: If there is excess funding-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: Sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: If somebody pays €2.50 for a toll of €2.30, where does the excess money end up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motorway Toll Charges: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (29 Nov 2022)
Verona Murphy: The operator, in other words.