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A senior Government official has said there is no reason to expect there will be any significant shortages in goods because of ongoing post-Brexit supply chain challenges.
Declan Hughes, an Assistant Secretary in the Indigenous Enterprise Unit in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, said there may have been - and may be in future - some isolated incidents with certain products.
But there had been no shortages of significance at this stage, he added.
Mr Hughes was speaking at a multi-agency Brexit briefing at Dublin Port, alongside officials from Revenue, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Transport and An Garda Siochana.
Revenue extends time for firms to swap to post-Brexit customs system Industry warns of ‘carnage’ in January coping with new customs for trade with Britain
Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 17:51 Updated: Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 17:54
Revenue warns of ‘immediate impact’ on January 1st for businesses that have not fully completed their preparations.
The Revenue Commissioners have given businesses more time to swap over to new customs IT systems as industry warns of “carnage” in January trying to manage post-Brexit checks.
In a sign that many small and medium-sized companies are not ready for new customs procedures on trade with Britain from the start of 2021, Revenue has extended, for the second time, the parallel running of new and old IT systems from next week until the end of March 2021.