Mr. Eugene Drennan:

Brittany Ferries has been very live to Ireland for many years and has changed its model to try to suit. We welcome that and thank it for that. That report took a totality of capacity and totality of capacity to run any sort of ship but it spoke about cubic capacity, not linear metres of a truck, not the different sizes that may be and not the need of the service line and the just-in-time service line about which I have spoken. The Deputy is well aware of my views on that. The biggest thing that did was change the thinking within Departments and bodies that they thought it was safe for two or three months. We have spent six months harping on in different webinars to try to get some of this across. If there is one thing I would ask this committee to do, it is always to hammer home the necessity of trucks and truck drivers and the service line because the attitude within public bodies tends to be that they will get through it or the market will take care of itself. It needs whatever help and assistance we can get to keep that field as level as possible and the service line coming.