Mr. Seamus Dunne:

To clarify, there is a big difference between what happened with ash dieback and the Scottish import. I cannot emphasise enough that ash dieback came in from another member state. We do not carry out import controls, nor does any other member state, within the community. There are no teams of inspectors that carry out inter-community border controls. It is different with Scotland. We had an import into Cork yesterday. We will have another import into Cork tomorrow. There will be inspectors inspecting those. We carry out inspections on third country regulated timber imports. As I said, a large consignment came in yesterday and there will be a large consignment tomorrow. We do, therefore, carry out import controls on third country imports.