Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would think that the idea of moving the port to Drogheda, Dundalk or somewhere else, which has been talked about occasionally, does not make sense. We have already built the port tunnel, which was specifically for the port. It would not seem to make sense to do that, but there are arguments that if a lot of what Dublin Port is doing is exporting from the hinterland of Dublin and, equally, a lot of the imports are being consumed in that area, it would seem to make sense to me that the port would be kept where it is rather than having everything transported from somewhere else into Dublin and back out from Dublin to somewhere else before it leaves Ireland.