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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: There were plenty of questions. Mr. McGarry has the floor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yes. He has to go to another meeting, of the committee dealing with the eighth amendment, and he will not be able to return though he will get the transcript of this meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I accept that Mr. McGarry is an incoming chairman. Perhaps we can get the chief executive of the port to respond in due course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is it bulk cargo?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is this part of the €1.8 billion expenditure in the strategic plan? I welcome Mr. McGarry's commitment to this. I am trying to understand how the port will develop. Is there a contradiction between container traffic and getting the road built? Is using road and rail a practical option? How will Shannon Foynes Port decide which is more important? How do the other ports near Foynes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: Obviously, it is a commercial world and the Shannon Foynes Port has competitors. What are its main competitors now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: What about Belfast?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: Shannon Foynes Port would need to be very competitive in order for an exporting business on the east coast to use it. How realistic is the company's development plan given that most of the volume of business is on the east coast?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I just want to understand Mr. McGarry's comments about the master plan. I welcome Mr. McGarry's commitment to expanding. While there are obviously many disadvantages to Brexit, Shannon Foynes Port will obviously try to maximise any advantages available. I come from the east coast and am not familiar with the operations of Moneypoint, Aughinish or Limerick Port. Obviously there are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I believe Aughinish is very near.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I appreciate that these are issues about which we might be able to ask the CEO. What sets Shannon Foynes Port apart from its competitors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is Shannon Foynes Port an open port for operators?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: Does that mean that anybody can bring their own staff or stevedores or-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: We might ask the CEO to respond to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: Are there any other questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am not really. Deputy Troy may go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the chairperson designate, Mr. McGarry, for appearing before the committee and answering our questions. I appreciate that he is not fully briefed on all the issues. I acknowledge his commitment that the CEO will respond to the committee clerk on those matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (15 Nov 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome Mr. Fred Barry, chairperson designate of the National Transport Authority, NTA. For his information, there are questions to the Minister for Health ongoing and we will have a couple of members in and out. There is also a committee meeting on the eighth amendment. Notwithstanding our importance, members will be in and out. Apologies for that.