Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In the limited time I have I will go over and back in asking my questions. I commend the work that is being done at stakeholder, ministerial and official level. We met the Department of Transport and I appreciate that it is operating in a sort of war cabinet type scenario in that when it comes upon a problem, it deals with it. However, everybody agrees that a huge number of problems for hauliers here are being caused by the fact that many British firms did not prepare for Brexit in the way the need for preparations was pushed at governmental level and happened here. We have heard of the difficulties with groupage. We know there are problems with the systems in that they do not talk to each other, so to speak. I refer to the manual transfer of, say, the movement reference number, MRN. We know that certain people involved in freight transport are wondering if there is any possibility of leeway. A number of these systems have only been put together. There was no time to try to test them. We did not even know what we would be testing them for and that is a difficulty at this time.

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