Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Impact of Brexit on Haulage, Freight, the Ports and Ferry Companies: Discussion

Mr. Eugene Drennan:

If one misses a ferry because of a logjam at the port then one is late to the market. If we do not get off here and it cuts into the timeline of the driver then anybody outside of the immediacy of Dublin will not get delivery until the following day. The traffic plan for Dublin Port is all based at the port but there was no talk of the traffic on the quay when trucks return to the O2 Arena and we are trying to reach boats. The North Wall is straight across the road from the 3Arena and the South Bank Quay is across the other bridge but both are not within the port. None of that is in the mix. The authors of the plan did not think of all that and did not consult us when drawing up the plan. We are the biggest users, we have the biggest vehicles and we have people traversing in and out of the port but nobody thought to ask us what we thought of the plan when they came to tell us.

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