Dr. Ciaran McNally:

I was very interested in Deputy Matthews's point about the example of Rosslare. I happened to have contact yesterday with some European colleagues in organising a strategic session in bringing in a port manager, a rail company and one of the major logistics companies. The idea is to bring them all together. Some countries are doing some parts of it very well and others are struggling but, again, by bringing them together, we can learn from this.

On implementing this in an Irish context, that is the ultimate goal in taking this best practice. Some countries have got the first and certain aspects of it right but we are all trying to learn from each other in this. Finding ways in which we can implement this in an Irish context would be the real goal.