Mr. Francis O'Donnell:

That certainly is absolutely new to us. Nobody supports rogue operators who are abusing the system and have people working on board their vessels without a valid visa. I am on record as saying that. Workers should at least be in the process of getting a valid visa; there was period during which somebody could have a letter to say they were being processed.

That figure has never been given to me previously. No one here condones that, but it begs the question that if that has been the case, they were working in the country illegally and I would have assumed the Naval Service would have detained the vessel or taken those persons under its control and delivered them to the Garda. I am not saying in any way that I do not believe what the Senator is saying, but we have an even bigger-----