Mr. David McArdle:

In building the system, no application programming interfaces, APIs, were built in. An API allows a computer system to talk to other computer systems. As a result of this, one must get one's information directly from the customs system, AIS, about which Mr. Nolan has spoken. One cannot stream it into a transport back office or anything like that. There is no simplicity built in. Officials are saying it may be 18 months or two years before any upgrade is carried out in that regard.