Ms Sheelagh Rooney:

References have been made to us being more proactive regarding illegals, for example, through surveillance activities, etc. The difficulty is that when one undertakes such activity and one does not have surveillance power - we are not the Garda - we would have difficulty in court potentially in undertaking a successful prosecution in that regard because there could be accusations of entrapment, for example, with us allowing someone who was not registered to carry out work, which would be illegal. We follow best practice procedures to secure prosecutions and, therefore, we do not undertake surveillance to do our job.