Derek McDowell (Labour)

Quite apart from anything else, the M50 will be unable to cope with the traffic.

We should not be at this point, but a bad deal got us to it. The concept of tolling the M50 was bad in the first instance. I cannot stand over the notion of paying such a huge amount both to expand the M50 and to pay compensation to NTR. We must find a rational way of dealing with this and put it in place as quickly as possible. It should be sensitive to the needs of all motorists and not just of those who pay the toll.