Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport

Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association

2:00 am

Mr. Eugene Drennan:

Keeping it free, because of two things, one of which Deputy Collins raised and I have yet to give him an answer on. Who has the say? It is very difficult to know who has the say but surely Irish and British Governments, which license ferries in and out of their ports, should have some say. We have lobbied everybody and I have been on two Zoom calls already with the Cardiff Government. It sort of says similar to what is being said in Ireland and what the shipping companies are saying, in that it is a commercial decision. A commercial decision may be to change the timetable, but something similar to the schedule should be maintained for all the reasons I have said and for the supply chain to here. There are two things in our reasoning here, one of which is that we have definite commitments to give to customers in Britain and onward to the Continent, so we need that commitment.

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