Mr. Niall Cody:

Yes. We also have the no-deal contingency plan, in which we must put infrastructure in place in Dublin Port and Dublin Airport to meet our requirements. It will not be as good as what we are hoping to have in place for 1 January 2021. It will involve checking and there are risk criteria. The fiscal risk is the lesser of these risks. There are checks in the agriculture and health areas to safeguard products and health. We have had meetings with colleagues in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and people dealing with environment, health and safety. One of my colleagues said at a meeting that I was only worried about money and I can always get the money another way. We have powers and provisions in that respect. If somebody gets away with something, we can always stop him or her the next time.

With regard to a particular disease or health risk, that is why there has always been an all-island sanitary phytosanitary, SPS, position. Going back to the incidence of foot and mouth disease, the island was affected. Our colleagues in the other agencies will say it is not a great comfort to find out that something has come in. These are the challenges we face.