Revenues from tolls on the M50 have nearly doubled since 2015.<\/p>\n
Eflow income has risen from \u20ac111 million that year to more than \u20ac216 million in 2025, an increase of almost 95 per cent.<\/p>\n
A further \u20ac34 million was collected in the first two months of this year.<\/p>\n
Peadar T\u00f3ib\u00edn of Aont\u00fa said the figures raise questions about how the money collected is spent.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Newstalk, he said: “This is a road for which the people of Ireland have already paid for significantly in terms of tolls.<\/p>\n
“And we believe that Government are using that road now as a cash cow against people who have no alternative to the M50.<\/p>\n
“They’re actually paying significant tolls for the pleasure of sitting in heavy traffic on a regular basis.”<\/p>\n
On January 1st this year, the M50 toll increased by 10 cent.<\/p>\n
“The Government are complaining about private companies price-gouging people in a cost-of-living crisis,” T\u00f3ib\u00edn said.<\/p>\n
“But these figures show that the Government are themselves gouging commuters in terms of the level of tolls that are being paid in this country.<\/p>\n
“So, from 2015 to last year, a period of 10 years, the amount collected on the M50 has nearly doubled.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revenues from tolls on the M50 have nearly doubled since 2015. Eflow income has risen from \u20ac111 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-423045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}