Sheila Terry (Fine Gael)

I support the call by Senator Brian Hayes for a debate on the issue of tolls in light of the Minister's actions during the past couple of days. In view of the many calls for such a debate it would be extremely useful to hold it and I hope we could all learn from it. The Minister does not appear to have learned any lessons from the disaster of the West Link toll bridge. He is going to compound the difficulties and the problems by removing the toll plaza but introducing tolls elsewhere on the M50. We know how that has created gridlock on the M50. There is a need to look at tolls throughout the country.