National Toll Roads Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Toll Roads plc.
The plc has invested more than €500m in infrastructure projects in the last five years and has plans to invest a further €300m in 2006. Turnover in 2005 was about €350m and the plc employs 1,300 people, 140 of whom work at West-Link.
Its public utility investments are in the areas of water, waste management, wind energy, broadband telecommunications and bio energy.
National Toll Roads plc ownership is made up as follows:
• The Roche family, 45 per cent
• 151 (formerly IAWS Co-op), 26 per cent
• Standard Life, 7.5 per cent
• Other institutional investors, 5 per cent
• Private investors, management and staff, 16.5 per cent.
In 2004 the West-Link bridge made an additional €149,000 through drivers making excess toll payments.