Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion
Mr. Eugene Drennan:
No, I did not. In response to Deputy Howlin's question on the easement in Northern Ireland, as well as the separation of the political and the commercial, I just hope this State has plan B. That is what I will say on that. The easements we have seen include the extension of the trusted trader system, simpler requirements for process, super-reduced data, solutions for the movement of freight of all types of parcels that will run freely, UK standards, a single general certificate only over one load and identity checks eventually being reduced to 5% or less. Of course this will have implications. Mr. Nolan is the expert and he will come in here on that. He always speaking about how loads from middle England, as well as from south and east of it, are flooding through Northern Ireland. The settling of the statistics recently, which I just quoted to the Deputy are from the last two years. Before that, however, the shift from Dublin has happened and there is nothing in this that will bring it back. It will shift further.
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