Mr. Damien Roche:

On the infrastructure, we need to get vehicles moving more quickly as outlined in the presentations. We also need to address the issue of the communications between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the HSE. If one proposes to bring in an import that they want to inspect and one clears the goods with them, it then kicks from a yellow routing into the Revenue system, which could result in what I mentioned earlier in terms of insufficient funds. Following clearance of the funds with the customer and Revenue, it then jumps into the HSE to be inspected again even though it would have previously said it was happy with it. That can happen with respect to the Department as well. This holds up space in the port, which is not necessary. The software in Revenue, the HSE and the Department is not talking to each other in the same way as it did in pre-1993 times when Revenue controlled all vehicles that came out of the port for the HSE and the Department. It is a matter of moving vehicles through the system more quickly. If the first point I made was clarified and the point I am making now was dealt with properly, there would probably not be as much infrastructural need in the port, except for inspection purposes. The main road out of the port in Wexford over the next couple of years will ease the movement of freight inwards and outwards, but as far as infrastructure within the port is concerned I refer the committee to the points made by Glenn Carr and David McArdle at a previous meeting.