Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion
Mr. Jim Breslin:
It is not a question of sorting it out because it is working. Everybody has said it will work and that it will need to work for the UK supply. It is actually difficult to envisage how or why something would arise in that situation. There is full agreement between the European Union and the United Kongdom on the issue of air transit. It is not that somebody would do something intentionally, nor is it enough for us to say “job done, move on.” Because of its impact, we have to have specific contingency arrangements in place. We are talking to the suppliers and monitoring the position for any rapid response we would have to introduce or a fall-back position that we would have to have. By far the most resilient and preferable route is the one being used. Sustaining it is our key strategy.
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