Mr. Eugene Drennan:

Like a lot of things, it is a slow burn. I had engagement with the President of the Regional Council of Normandy. His name is Hervé Morin. Perhaps his family came to or from Wexford long ago. He came here with two trade delegations from France and Normandy. We went to the French commercial promotion events. I said it was time for him to do something for us if he was that proactive. The volume of trade is 180,000 movements a year and many of these go into Normandy. They are delighted with it. They are over the moon. They never saw that opportunity previously. It will lead to tourism. This is the practical back up that we need. Of course the psyche of the French is to protect their own and they are very big into that. The environment may be a little bit of a smokescreen. There are those who would like to see everything going that way. The totality of the Irish road haulage sector and the licensed sector would be approximately half the size of a very big fleet in France. We will not have anything identical to the trade.