Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty this week in the media is that Stena Line is apportioning blame to Dublin Port. It states the infrastructure for Revenue and inspections is in the wrong place. The port's answer to this is that the shipping companies should alter their schedules. This could throw Revenue's system into disarray. In essence, what the ferry companies are saying is they will not alter their schedules but they will reduce capacity for trucks on the ferries, which totally throws into disarray the Irish Maritime Development Office's report that states we have sufficient capacity. The whole problem is that we are only six weeks out and we do not have a significant coherent plan that states Revenue is working with the ships, the ferry operators and the ports. It seems we are at a very late stage to be trying to say this is all going to work and it has cost so much money. As Mr. Cody said, 2016 was when we started discussing Brexit. I sat on the customs consultative committee in my previous role for three years and I cannot see now, when we are six weeks out, that we are any better off than we were on day one, except that the IT system is there but it is not up and running and it has not been trialled. Is there a list of customs clearance agents available to the supply chain?