Ms Sin?ad Gibney:

Absolutely, Senator. We will of course. I will let Ms Kilpatrick deal with the inter-state case and comment on that. I do not have an immediate answer on the potential legislative changes except to say once again that simply putting the common travel area agreement on a statutory footing is something we have long called for and would continue to propose. It will address many of those issues. I think it would be approached a little differently now in light of the electronic travel authorisation, ETA. The Senator talked about examples including insurance issues and the taxi driver. We are hearing about concerns from civil society. We are in regular contact with the Committee on the Administration of Justice about the potential implications of the ETA, as well as the Irish Council for Civil Liberties on this side of the Border. We are live to it but have not yet put forward any potential legislative proposals or indeed amendments to existing Irish legislation that would help to address that. We will keep it on our radar.