Ms Bernie Maguire:

I will start with that past 11 years and what has been prevented. The Deputy can come back in if I have missed some of the questions. We mentioned earlier that in 2015 there was an EU operation, Operation Sophia, relating to the Mediterranean and the humanitarian crisis that was happening there. We were interested in participating in that but we could not because there was no UN Mandate. We put in place a bilateral mission with Italy. It was difficult. It was challenging at the time. It did not have any legislative basis other than it was an agreement with Italy. We had to wait until there was a UN Mandate in 2016 and we then joined that mission. That is an example. In 2017, the then head of the MAOC (N), which is the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre for Narcotics in Lisbon, was the former Garda assistant commissioner, Michael O'Sullivan. He asked us to consider engaging the Naval Service in operations with the agency. We did not get further than saying sorry, that is not permitted under our current legislative framework. They are just two recent ones. We spoke earlier about the current difficulties we have in the missions we are already in.