Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I will return to a point Mr. Cody made about the increase in work with regard to customs. The land bridge is pretty much the real issue. Some of that would have gone through customs in the UK and now we are seeing a larger volume by virtue of the fact that the land bridge is being avoided because of Brexit. Mr. Cody talked about the increase in the number of customs officials. Does he have a request in for additional staff? Is there sufficient staff? Has he done a piece of work on what would be needed? There are huge volumes here. I am sure much will be done based on information rather than at random, but there will be some degree of randomness as well.