Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Rosslare Europort has vast unrealised potential. It is our primary roll-on, roll-off port. It is the only port or airport that has a train station. A total of 80% of the volume of goods produced here currently goes to the Continent using the UK land-bridge. If there is a hard Brexit then there will be tailbacks in the port. It needs to be developed to meet these demands. Time and again, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport has failed to set out plans for the port to become a driver of the economy of Wexford and the south-eastern region. Rosslare Europort makes a profit of €2.5 million annually but it looks like a ghost town. If the profit was reinvested in the port instead of being returned to its owner, Iarnród Éireann, it would leverage approximately €15 million on the international market.

In March this year the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Moran, told my colleague, Deputy Browne, that Revenue Commissioners staff needed additional accommodation and that a suitable site had been identified. At that stage negotiations were ongoing. Can the Minister indicate what stage those preparations are at now?

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