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:

It is much more the issue of capacity, not individual goods. If we go down the line of individual goods, we are talking about a serious selection of goods. I have called for, and I still call for, all of the ferries to get some sort of public service obligation, PSO, help. People are slow to go there, and they are slow to go to Europe because of the rules of Europe on supporting industry and the level playing field in Europe, in that we may have some competitive advantage. I find that to be nonsense in these circumstances. The country that is disenfranchised in the competitive area is Ireland because it is now the island off the island. It does not have to be a willy-nilly or open-ended fund to give money to the ferry companies but to set up a sort of a service line, whether it is for air freight or for the ferry companies, and to get that bedded in, and get that into-----

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