Mr. Eugene Drennan:

The Acting Chairman has the air of it; it is a concern. Our biggest concern is that we would score own goals, that our State agencies and the way we go about our business will cause the mayhem. It would be just crazy if we were to do that. On customs and booking ferries, anything that has to travel has to be declared now, which it did not have to be before with the free movement of goods. If we are going on direct ferries it is still covered in the free movement of goods, but the Irish-UK trade is 1 million movements a year. It is a €5 billion market. It is massive and way bigger than it was in the past when there were customs in the past. When we declare the goods that have to travel, it creates a pre-boarding number, PBN. Declarations create an electronic envelope and all details are in the envelope. They revert back to the laws of the customs union all the time in that we must also declare the ship we are travelling on and the identifier of the mode of transport of the goods is the ship.