Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentations. As the last speaker said, we would not be here if there were no difficulties.

I am especially interested in focusing on the solutions, middle ground and opportunities for improving on the current situation. I will say at the outset, as all other speakers have said, that there was no such thing as a good Brexit and it comes with hurdles that are impossible to avoid. I hope we can agree that there are some hurdles that have been, at least in part, self-imposed and there is an opportunity to refine, improve or advance on those. We have heard about replication and systems duplication and triplication. We have heard that there are systems running in tandem and administrative and bureaucratic requirements associated with that. I ask Mr. Harrahill, in the first instance, what he believes are the opportunities for improvement in these systems. Does he agree that there is an opportunity? What might that look like? We have heard that he is of the opinion that we cannot scrap the preboarding notification, PBN, and that the introduction of a transition period might be detrimental. Does Mr. Harrahill agree that there is room for improvement? What might that look like?