Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. McArdle and Mr. Nolan, and appreciate their ongoing engagement with us. I will follow on from the points made by Senator Gallagher. Do our guests feel that things have advanced a little since their most recent interaction with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications Networks? There was an acceptance and understanding from Revenue at that time and a commitment to engage more fully with the IRHA. Our guests might come back to me on that comment.

Following on from the point that Mr. Nolan made, we are hearing anecdotally that a considerable amount of consumer goods are being retained in warehouses and not being shipped. We are told that, at some point, it may have an impact on the shelves in the retail sector. As our guests know, the only parts of the retail sector in existence at the moment are grocery stores and supermarkets. Will our guests point to anything in that respect about which we should be concerned?

I take Mr. Nolan's point that he had to intervene when it came to the white goods he mentioned and that was something the IRHA took on itself. Is there something more that the Irish State could be doing? Is there something more that the Government could be doing to try to address that issue?

A haulier previously raised with me the issue of finding a route through the UK for trucks coming through Dover from Calais.

Is there still an issue about transiting through the UK? Could anything be simplified in that regard or is there anything our authorities could do to facilitate that, or will it require a broader and wider change at European level?