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:
It is a commercial decision for the shipping companies to change schedules to a degree, but they should not revert back to this really contracted, restricted, whole-time schedule. The schedules have been gone into. We will forward to the committee the information to back up all of this. The new schedule is working so well. It is a lot safer and a lot better for the environment in Dublin and in Holyhead. If we look at the timetables under the new schedule, all the big ferries have left Dublin by 8.30 a.m. or the like, so all the trucks are in the port by 7 a.m. or 7.30 a.m. There is no congestion here. They are flowing for a single ferry at different times, so the flow runs great.
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