Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Monday, 15 February 2021

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

Impact of Brexit on Trade Connectivity and Trade Flows: Discussion

Mr. David McArdle:

To come back to the Senator's first point about the UK, it has not yet started its customs procedures, as such. One could classify the situation as a free-for-all. The UK systems will come online on 1 July. We should not hold our breath. Ireland is ahead on certain things. UK customers are not up to speed on getting their paperwork to Ireland for importing into the country after Brexit. We are going to have a lot of issues, come 1 July, with exporting to the UK. It is going well at the moment, considering the amount of goods that are moving, although that amount is still well down. The UK system has yet to come online, as such, so it is not doing a whole lot about imports at the moment.

The Senator also asked about our meetings with Revenue. We had a second meeting on Friday and there will be further discussions this week. There are points being discussed and we will have to wait and see what the outcome will be. We have put a lot of points to Revenue and it is going through them. Some upgrading is being done on the pre-boarding notification, PBN, system but it will have to be tested. There is an issue with overloading on the system and they have moved certain people to different timeframes, as we understand it, to try to solve the overloading problem.

Mr. Nolan may have something to add.

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