Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 20: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine when he proposes to provide in legislation for open tolling. [17917/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The Roads Bill 2007, which will provide the legislative basis for open road tolling, is currently before the House. I hope that it will be enacted before the Summer recess.

The principal purpose of the Bill is to provide the necessary statutory basis to facilitate the implementation of free flow open road tolling (also known as 'barrier-free' tolling) on toll-based national road schemes through the provision of appropriate deterrents for non-payment of tolls. In particular, this legislation is necessary to support the introduction of free flow open road tolling at West-Link on the M50 by August 2008.