Ms Lucy McCaffrey:

I will certainly look into it.

I have covered some of Deputy Harrington's questions in replying to Deputy Fitzmaurice. He asked about the question of inter-port competition and whether ports outside the Republic are involved in that. Belfast is a competitor port, one with which we have a very good competitive relationship.

Intra-port competition is very active. We have four large strong roll-on roll-off terminal operators, three load-on load-off operators and another operator is a hybrid between the two. It is a company called CLdN, which operates to Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. Competition is active in the port. In its report, the Competition Authority acknowledged that intra-port competition was strong. We have recently issued a new stevedoring licence, which was a recommendation of the Competition Authority and something we regarded as being in the interests of competition in the port.

The industrial relations environment within Dublin Port Company is good. The HR function is very skilled and the industrial relations competence is skilled. There is no problem. We do not have industrial relations problems of any significance and we are very good at scanning the environment to make sure that is so. Some of the staff of the Dublin Port Company are generations working in the port. They are very hard-working and loyal staff, which is significant in the culture of the company.