Mr. Noel Waters:

If the Senator is suggesting that there would be a border in Dundalk or something, we do not anticipate having border control points there. There are many possibilities. One may talk about what might happen and how our systems would operate post-Brexit. The nature of immigration means it can be quite unpredictable. I would not want to be alarmist. I have no sense of why a situation like the one outlined by Senator Craughwell would arise, it does not make sense to me. The nature of immigration is that what is not a problem today could well become a problem later. For example, last year or the year before, we had a major problem with very significant numbers of people from a far eastern country coming to Ireland after their immigration permission for the UK had run out of time. They used the common travel area. It took us about 18 months to get on top of that, with both jurisdictions working together to ensure that we respected each others' borders. We dealt with that appropriately and that problem has been solved but 18 months ago that problem was not there. It emerged and it was solved and that is the nature of the work we do.