Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed)

10:00 am

Mr. Brian Keegan:

Ultimately, no organisation, whether it is a State or commercial organisation like ours, can try to second-guess every contingency or issue. What we do need to happen - it is beginning to happen because we are getting queries almost every day - is for businesses to begin to wake up to the kind of issues that have been ventilated in this room for the past two hours. We will play our part in relaying those queries to Revenue. It certainly would be helpful if, at an early stage, more formal channels of communications could be opened up. In that context, we spoke about agribusiness earlier and it would be of assistance if such channels could be opened up with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. There is a form for referring these issues, as they arise, to Departments, Government agencies and the political system in order to identify how we might work through them.

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