Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed)
4:00 pm
Ms Verona Murphy:
Spatial considerations are currently under way at Dublin Port. It has bought land and it is making provisions. The same is not happening at Rosslare Europort but it should be. It will take a minimum of €40 million to prepare Rosslare Europort for a hard Brexit scenario, but it can be done and it should be done now. Five Government agencies will operate in the port, namely, those dealing with emigration, agriculture, immigration, customs, the Health and Safety Authority, HSA, and the HSE. They need to be catered for and that can be done now. The financial input for that can only come from Government.