Mr. John Nolan:

To answer Senator Dooley's first question, we will see shortages in the supermarkets of phytosanitary goods. They include fresh vegetables and other such products that are technically very difficult to get through customs. There is a Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, DEFRA, and HSE involvement in all those cases. Products going through Rosslare or Dublin take a day or two days to get through the process. The products are red-routed. You have to go down with a tractor unit. We use the expression that you have to babysit the products in the port. That is as long as you have the paperwork. If you do not have the paperwork then you are wasting your time. Assuming you have all of that, it takes a minimum of four hours to get a truck out of a border control point, although they say it is one hour.