Mr. Martin Callinan:

In short, I am. As Senator O'Donovan will be aware, we in An Garda Síochána have liaison officers in a number of capitals in Europe - in the UK, Paris, Lisbon, The Hague, Spain, etc. We work with colleagues. We have our own national office here and we have a similar situation in the context of Interpol. We attend various meetings where all of these strategies are discussed.

In addition, we have local initiatives, such as coastal watch. We have the Customs service and the Naval Service working with us. All of those combined are of great help. MAOC-N is the maritime service looking at intelligence, sharing manifests and looking at patterns. Our analysts look at various elements of shipping. All of those activities coming together provide some assurance that we are capturing in so far as we can all such big shipments. Who knows whether we will ever get on top of it, but we are certainly trying hard, working with our international and European partners, to counteract this type of activity and, as the Senator will be aware, we have had a number of successes.