Ms Geraldine McGahey:

I just want to make a comment, if I may, on the electronic travel area and the correspondence we sent to the Home Office in January and the response we got a good while thereafter. I will refer to part of the response because it talks about enforcement and guidance within the common travel area. It states that intelligence-led operational activity is used to tackle to known abuse of the common travel area and is only undertaken away from the land Border. It states also that the UK recognises the requirement to obtain an ETA may be different for those residing in Ireland and, therefore, the UK and Ireland have agreed to work together to establish whether there is scope for a workable UK-Ireland data-sharing solution. That is the only information we have on the fact that both Governments are working together to try to determine and establish some regulations that might deliver on the Nationality and Borders Act as it is now. If we have anything else, we are happy to share it with the committee in the future.