James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister will know, 80% of goods by volume to the Continent cross the UK land bridge. The concern of the road hauliers is that even if the land bridge is left open via customs checks, things like checks and tolls, or even the fact that many of their drivers may be Polish or Romanian, will mean that even if there is not an actual technical block to them going over the UK land bridge, doing so may become uneconomical. The development of Rosslare Europort for direct links to the Continent will become very important. There was a surprising reported statement from the head of Rosslare Europort to Wexford County Council recently, to the effect that he reportedly said that the Government's policy is not to invest in ports. I hope he is being misquoted in the local newspaper because that would be quite a shocking statement to make. It would be interesting to have that clarified, but it is not the Minister's Department.

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