Mr. Drew Harris:

From my understanding and what I have seen of the matter, these are operations directed towards organised crime involvement in immigration-type crime. As I said, that is human trafficking or the illegal movement of individuals for considerable sums of money. That is what we are addressing. I ask the Deputy to allow me to come back to him on the specific points he raises. He raises a very serious point about to whom the checks are being applied and I would want to have a full answer to that. I have not seen the correspondence from the CAJ. I had information on our efforts on immigration, as opposed to the specific answer to the CAJ issue. To put this in context, it would be useful to provide the information which shows the detections of the Dundalk unit, as opposed to what is happening at either Dublin Airport or Dublin Port, where there is very considerable enforcement activity. The common travel area, for all its strengths, also creates an opportunity for organised crime and we are therefore obliged to police that and to do our utmost to ensure we are not subject to criminal gangs moving people illegally through this jurisdiction and, in effect, into Northern Ireland to get access then into the UK, or the reverse. There are important policing issues in this.