Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Liam Irwin:

It would be a matter for a business to decide to locate anywhere in the European Union, including Ireland.

There are standard arrangements for land bridge. About 80% of our goods trade going from Ireland to the UK is land bridge. The others are primarily Rosslare and the airports. Land bridge is also used for goods from Donegal transiting Northern Ireland, down to Dublin and other parts of the Republic. There is land bridge for quite a large volume of Northern Ireland goods coming down to Dublin Port to go the UK. There are different scenarios, but there are standard procedures, depending on the nature of the future relationship and how onerous or light they will be. It is something that will evolve.