Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 January 2019

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

Brexit Preparedness and Related Matters: Revenue Commissioners

Mr. Niall Cody:

Of the initial 400 staff, about 240 will be deployed between Dublin Port, Dublin Airport and Rosslare, with about 130 going to Dublin Port, 80 to the airport and 30 to Rosslare. The rest will be in the various different processes. Other parts of the border that we have are the postal centres. We have a permanent presence in the main postal centres to deal with third country products. One can imagine the impact, for example, on our operation in Portlaoise, if the UK were to become a third country. Essentially, we have a border post in places such as postal centres in Portlaoise, which will become much busier. Previously Senator Conway-Walsh spoke about online shopping, which will be hugely impacted by this. Some of our staff will be in the Portlaoise postal centre, in some of the depots of the couriers and in the big-----

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