Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank our guests for their hard work this year. I want to return to some of the discussions that Mr. Cody had with Deputy Verona Murphy and the issue around share of single authorisation for simplified procedures, SASP. I understand that centralised clearance allows economic operators to declare goods in one EU member state and, obviously, the UK is now removing itself from that process. It also allows economic operators to centralise the accounting and payment of customs duties for all their customer transactions in the supervising member state. Of course, it also allows Government an immediate insight into real-time data and, as Mr. Cody said, real-time systems are the way forward. I am under the impression that centralised clearing will not be fully operational in Ireland until 2023 due to the requirement for supporting electronic systems. Will Mr. Cody give an update on where we are with implementing that system? Are other EU countries further ahead? Do they have a fully operating SASP system in place?