Mr. Niall Cody:

The struggle is attracting people, because they are not there. I know from talking to some of the practitioners that they are going outside the EU to try to get people on it.

Back to customs, customs is kind of divided in two. There is trade facilitation, which is processing all the entries, and there is our anti-smuggling border control piece. A huge part of that is driven by intelligence, as the Deputy said. A huge part is also driven by the giant action task force and our close working relationship with An Garda Síochána, the Naval Service and I mentioned the Army Ranger Wing, the members of which became customs officials for the day. There is then our international co-operation with Europol, Interpol, the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre, MAOC-N, and the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF. I have to mention them all because OLAF funds some of our scanners. I talked about our staff. I know the Deputy tabled a parliamentary question recently about our dog teams. The most obedient Revenue staff are our 30-odd dogs and the work they do is exceptional.