Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 May 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed)
10:00 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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As I listen to the exchanges this morning, the real difficulty is for the small operator, namely, the haulier with just a few a trucks. He or she will have to have a number of different consignments and should one of them cause a problem at customs level, the other exporters who have their consignments on his or her truck will suffer a delay in terms of their being delivered to the United Kingdom or France in a timely manner. There is a possibility of losing business when goods are not delivered on time. These are the businesses that are least prepared for Brexit.