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:
We have a new regime that allows for significant tolerance on one side of this. I have no problem giving the easements in this offer to Northern Ireland and the unionists. I am on record as long ago as two years ago as having no problem with that. We tightened down for connectivity with Ireland. Our trade is on the commercial business side. The rules and regulations were too tight and did not encompass the wrong side of the scrum position, our trade with the UK historically or the vast size of it. Connectivity tightened down far too much. I have had a van going with copies of the Wexford Peopleto the London diaspora every week for 35 years and I have always brought home new teachers and nurses and their suitcases at a very reasonable cost. They might have a bed or a couch.
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