IRELAND, 21 January, 2021, (TON): Simon Coveney, Irish Foreign Minister blames Brexit for the food supply problems in Northern Ireland for the authorities are maintaining certain amount of checks on goods going between Britain and Northern Ireland.

In recent days, the British ministers have sought to play down the disruption of Brexit.                

The minister told the media that before Christmas the supermarket shelves were full however, now there are some disturbances in the supply chains and so it is clearly a Brexit issue. 

The Northern Irish protocol means there are “a certain amount of checks on goods coming from Great Britain into Northern Ireland and that involves some disruption,” he said.

Few days earlier, following the post custom changes resulted in long waits faced by the lorry drivers to have the correct paperwork to ship goods out of the United Kingdom. The major issue prompted the freight forwarding agent to warn that there may be denial by the hauliers to carry and drive the goods to Britain threatening food shortages in Britain like those already seen in some Northern Ireland supermarkets.