Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There are too many people to welcome everyone but I thank them for coming. I apologise to Deputy Catherine Murphy who has already heard this. We were at the Joint Committee on European Affairs earlier which Liam Lacey of the Irish Maritime Development Office, IMDO, attended. Were I to take on board what he told us, I would probably be very relaxed that the market will sort everything out and there will be no major difficulties arising from Brexit other than a couple of minor hiccups. I am not entirely sure that will be the case.

Will Mr. Drennan send the committee a document outlining what he is asking for that we can put directly to the Minister for Transport? He has spoken of obvious solutions.

The committee has heard about the chaos we will have at Dublin Port regarding the traffic management system that will use the likes of the port tunnel as something that somebody drives around. We know the difficulties there will be in Great Britain. Has there been sufficient conversation in a proper forum with all the stakeholders - hauliers, ferry companies and business sectors - because I understand just in time requires people to get their goods within a particular period of time? As welcome as they are, some of the new ferries might not necessarily always suit. Has enough of this happened and does the State need to step and ensure it does to ensure we can mitigate whatever we can given that we do not know exactly what type of Brexit we will get other than it will be bad?