Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Road Haulage Industry: IRHA and FTA

11:15 am

Mr. Richard Nolan:

In regard to the five points - I think Mr. Gavin will touch on the fifth one at the end - two of them are international and involve Great Britain more than anywhere else. The other three are totally within our grasp and we can fix them immediately. The two that are international really involve Ireland and Great Britain as a unit and some degree of co-operation among those countries. The reason we use the 1949 Act is that it existed before the Treaty of Rome. Benelux has a similar arrangement. If the will is not there, let us accept that and let us reflag what we are going reflag. Let what is not going to be reflagged be enforced in the Republic of Ireland to the same extent as in other jurisdictions.