Mr. Gerry Harrahill:

Yes. I will return presently to the question of how far advanced we are. Once this information is available, an electronic risk assessment system is undertaken to ensure that all the things that are meant to be done as part of that import are in place. For example, if a commodity is subject to a licence, that licence must be in place. Similarly, there could be a declaration that it is a particular type of commodity, where the commodity code is at variance with that, or a valuation outside of the deviation one would expect could be put on the goods. All of that goes on seamlessly in the background.

Let us say the commodity is coming in on a ferry into Dublin Port. When the ferry is 15 minutes from the port, the person who is doing the import gets a signal from Revenue that the goods are free for circulation or that they may be subject to a documentary check or a physical check, depending on what our risk analysis system indicates. If the goods are legitimate and everything is okay, the import gets what we describe as a green routing, where the truck comes off the ferry into Dublin Port, travels on to the M50 and off it goes. If the goods are subject to some kind of control or check, which may be a Revenue check or one on behalf of or by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, assuming the check is satisfied, it takes-----