Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 22 January 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Customs Checks Post Brexit: Discussion

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Go raibh maith agat. First, I am speaking from LH2000 within the Leinster House campus. It has been said that we are all here because there is a problem. We knew there were going to be problems as regards Brexit. Some may have been foreseen, to a degree, but I believe we are dealing with a situation with systems that could not be tried and tested beforehand. We have the switch from the automatic identification system, AIS, we have people operating paper systems, multiple IT systems, the manual transfer of movement reference numbers, MRN, and so on, and that all causes problems.

I would like to deal initially with the fact, as I believe has been said, that it is absolutely vital we have the stakeholders-----

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