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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: One second.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Why do we not all speak together if we want to do that? It would be a shambles. I ask members to respect the speaker, whomever it is. I ask the Minister to conclude.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is bordering on-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We have spoken about this and teased it out for long enough. We do not----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: -----pandering to somebody’s idea of what should be in order. Minister, I am sorry about this disruption. I ask you to conclude.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Is it agreed that the new section should be inserted?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: On the section. All right. We will have no more after this now. We have had long enough-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The amendments have been discussed together.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I want to dispose of the amendments first. Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are related and have been discussed. Let us not delay any longer. What is the position on amendment No. 1?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Is it intended to put it to a vote?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We are coming to it in a minute. We have to get to No. 2 before proceeding to No. 3, but if the Deputy wants me to take them in that order, I will do it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: This is definitely the Minister's final reply.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We must proceed. We have 164 amendments, and at the present rate of progress, we will probably get to them by Christmas Eve; I am not relishing the prospect of being here on Christmas Eve. We should all try to do our best here. We will try to give everybody an opportunity to speak. In order to do that, we have to move on. Within section 2, the proposal was that a new section be inserted...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The amendment has fallen.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: The question has been declared lost.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I invite Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent, if any, to which heavy vehicles use the main arterial routes to and from the city at peak travel times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55814/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures proposed or currently in hand to alleviate traffic congestion on main routes such as the M50, M1, M4 and M7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56050/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (10 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which any upgrading of arterial routes to the city can be completed to speed up local commutes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56052/22]