This morning.
At The Printworks in Dublin Castle.
The Department of Agriculture hosted a free seminar on Brexit for agri-food businesses.
Lisa O’Carroll, of The Guardian, tweetz:
Getting ready for Brexit seminar in Dublin for farmers and food businesses. 80% of about 350 delegates say they have prep started. How many think they are prepared? One lone person put hand up. On my table, gent says he is afraid if one t not crossed, will be held up.
Pics: Lisa O’Carroll
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A friend working in customs has as part of his job the task of calling importers and asking them if they have the paper work for Brexit / importing from the UK, in order.
Many respond, he says, that… “the supplier via the UK also has other hubs on the continent, and we’ll just switch to them”.
It’s only an anecdote, but one I thought worth sharin’.
I’ll give ye one. we had to abandon a particular planned procurement choice for a piece of equipment as recently as 6 weeks ago because the crowd who sell & manufacture couldn’t fix a price & couldn’t even tell us how the VAT arrangements would work out.
when this eventually drops there’s gonna be all sorts of supply chain disaster going down, trust me.
When one goes looking for information and support in preparing for a post-Brexit Irish business economy, they can get it…insofar as the government agencies and departments can prepare for a still yet unknown environment. The ones bemoaning unpreparedness have probably (and unsurprisingly) felt cushioned by the delayed deadlines. Challenging times ahead to business and industry – but no more challenging than the recent recession, or future carbon tax proposals, for example. Brexit is to be navigated, not feared if businesses are to survive.
The real frightening thing is that Shane Ross is in charge of transport.
+1 Hoop
Sorry hoop but I know one company who done the prep first time around and it cost them a LOT of money. At this time there is no thing called Brexit- it does not exist- it is just a vague aspiration for Britain to leave the EU and woolly political PR seminars will not make a blind bit of difference.
The worst case scenario will have a lot bigger impact than our recent recession- international supply chains will be crippled because most hauliers come through Britain and that is not even considering that most finished products are for consumption across the pond.
All they can do is follow the lead of smugglers along the border and build more sheds. Not very ‘Lean’ but only the fat will survive- Brexit in a nutshell- the plan all along.
ooh, free pens!
ooh, free pen!s.
Corrected.
You are welcome.
Some Irish suppliers may benefit from Brexit…
A certain large chemist chain store source all their product from the UK, apparently, by-passing Irish suppliers.
I learned this while working on the ad account of a few popular brands of make-up, with Irish suppliers, whom the chain would not use.
Maybe after Brexit it may make sense for the Irish part of the chain to use the Irish based suppliers… ?
I dunno tho… just thinkin’ out loud here :)
Might put the boot in to them, wha’!
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I’ll get me coat! …and a sample of Man of Aran.
It is beyond humor now Clampers- people who have no choice but to travel by bus for medical treatments along an invisible border are already being harassed. There is no fence just posts so which one would you like to sit your ass on?
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey- 100%.
I take it there won’t be a single quip from you re Brexit between now and …say, the first year in to it then.
I doubt it.
That will hopefully happen Clamps. May take a bit of diversification in the manufacturing sector though. But think how great it will be to possibly have no more Hallmark greeting cards in Easons – only Irish ones?
What will also be interesting are newly-forged relationships with EU 27 suppliers. A news feature on the radio recently pointed at how the average Irish consumer has already averted away from brands like Heinz because of the German supermarkets offering us rival European brands – just as good, I vouch. I can’t apply same optimism to pharmecuticals, vaccines and medical supplies though – as essential as food – those supply chains will be seriously messed up post-Brexit.
Was thinking of Amazon recently, will they open a .ie domain to cover all Irish customers? You know, keep the money in the country rather than have it whizz around the world before it finally stops here anyway?
Well, MS had an option of outlook.ie and then closed it down for some peculiar reason- the demand was defiantly there?