Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With Brexit, I have seen today at first hand what happens if we do not get the ports right. I drove home last night and drove up again this morning. Coming into Dublin I met a 5 km tailback of vehicles leaving. Some 50% or 60% of them were trucks trying to leave Dublin with materials. Three lanes were backed up for 5 km. What will happen to our hauliers if there is a hard Brexit? All hauliers have under eight hours' driving time. With the restrictions introduced at midnight, hauliers have been held up on the motorway today for an hour. We could have simplified it and they could have left today on a truck lane to get the commercial vehicles out. If the same thing happens with our ports, all the hauliers and all the produce leaving Ireland will be in big trouble.

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