Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 97: To ask the Minister for Transport if and when he intends to proceed with legislation to allow for barrier free tolling at the West Link toll bridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21171/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The move from the current toll arrangement on the M50 West Link bridge to a barrier free automated toll collection facility will be completed over a number of stages, involving a phased reduction in the cashier-coin basket lanes with a corresponding increase in payments by automated methods.

My Department is contributing to the process by reviewing the need to change, where necessary, the legislative framework so as to facilitate the introduction of open road tolling. I anticipate, subject to the other priorities on the legislative programme, that the draft legislation will be introduced in autumn of this year.