Mr. Ger Hyland:

The only non-EU drivers available to us at the minute are South African and it is taking up to 12 months to get them through the system. There are nine different regulatory points to be crossed, including licence recognition and so on. We need to have a one-stop shop for this. A driver coming in from South Africa today has to go through the same regulatory hurdles as a person coming in here through the international asylum system. For somebody coming in here to work, there needs to be a completely different, streamlined approach such that they get their licence and their recognition within two or three months, as is the case in other countries in Europe where drivers are finding it so much easier to go to work.