Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion

Photo of Marian HarkinMarian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Speaking of steel, one of the things I thought about - perhaps this is not the right place to ask this, but I will throw it out there anyway - is that if the steel is coming into Northern Ireland, there are no tariffs, and then, if those companies want to tender for, let us say, infrastructural projects here, what are the implications? This is not really to do with transport but it is just another point that has occurred to me. It is not so much that the Irish companies would go North and perhaps get their steel at a certain price but also that Northern companies would act. Certainly, around where I live, they tender very often and are very much involved in many infrastructural projects. That is more a comment than a question.

Mr. Drennan spoke about a seamless approach to transiting the UK. Will he briefly tell us how it is now and what further challenges he thinks there will be if this agreement goes through?

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