Mr. Frank Gleeson:

The UK has lower rates of tobacco smuggling. I am part of a petroleum and convenience retail association which produces worldwide figures. Ireland sticks out as one of the worst markets for tobacco smuggling, which is shocking. It is embarrassing for me when I am sitting at a board meeting of 50 people who tell me Ireland is the worst and I tell them we are trying to deal with the problem. We have the highest prices for tobacco and the highest percentage of smuggled tobacco. We are a very developed economy so we should be able to deal with this, but it appears we are not doing so. That is the issue.