Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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458. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an exchange transport manager CPC IRL-EU certificate will issue for a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20809/21]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy may be aware, the Department last year wrote to Transport Managers, working for Irish road transport operators and holding a Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) issued by the UK authorities, to inform them that, following clarification received by the Department from the European Commission, holders of such UK-issued CPCs could obtain a corresponding Irish certificate by applying to the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) before the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020. The letters noted that, as had been outlined previously, UK-issued Transport Management CPCs would no longer be valid to work as Transport Manager for an Irish (or other EU) road transport operator from 1 January of this year.

I can confirm that in respect of the details supplied, this person is being issued with a corresponding Irish certificate as he applied for such before the end of last year. The Department is writing to the person concerned to clarify this matter.