Shane Ross (Independent)

The report will come back. Perhaps Senator Mansergh could have that job if his ambitions are fulfilled. He might replace him. The report will then find its way into the hands of the Minister's successor and, lo and behold, he or she will decide to toll the entire M50 rather than a single point. There is a certain logic in that option which this report will recommend. Does the Minister know why it will recommend this? It will recommend it because it is absurd simply to toll a single point. The people who go through that point get tolled, but people travelling from Bray to Blanchardstown do not pay anything. This is crazy and the worst of all worlds for everybody. If one goes through one point on a long stretch of road, one pays a toll, but if one uses any other stretch of the road where one does not go through that point, one does not pay a toll. This is ridiculous.