Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Londonderry Chamber of Commerce and Foyle Port

Mr. Brian McGrath:

I will add that part of the reason we are so committed to developing the Irish side of what we do is that 30% of our staff travel from Donegal every day. The integration of business and people in everything is such a cross-Border enterprise. When we made a number of submissions in 2019 and 2020 to the draft national maritime framework - we also made other submissions to the Northern and Western Regional Assembly - we were presenting to the Irish Government our intention to be seen as part of its national infrastructure, which is something that we do not get credited with. Foyle Port is a national asset. The fact that we are a UK trust port on the one hand and an Irish port on the other is a simultaneous and unique feature that should be embraced by both Governments in a way that it has not been hitherto. We have made our own ground on that. We could take it to another level completely with policy support.

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