Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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208. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to conduct a survey to quantify the costs of traffic congestion to businesses in the cities of Dublin, Cork and Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19000/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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In 2017 the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport’s Economic and Financial Evaluation Unit published a report “The cost of congestion, an analysis in the Greater Dublin Area”. The analysis estimates that the cost of time lost due to aggravated congestion is €358 million in the base year (2012).

The National Competitiveness Council’s forthcoming report Cost of Doing Business in Ireland 2018 also provides data on journey times in busy periods. The Report is due to be published shortly.

I do not plan, at this stage, to conduct a survey quantifying the costs of traffic congestion to business.