Ms Anne Coleman-Dunne:

I will take the Deputy's last question on the land bridge. We are seeing from the trade statistics that there is quite a move away from that. The traffic using the UK land bridge to Europe, and vice versa, is down by approximately 20% and does not seem to be going back to, say, the 2019 levels. The Deputy said the Government was tardy in this matter. It is the case that our colleagues in the Department of Transport at the time were working with the shipping operators, logistics companies and so on that were using the land bridge. In advance of any change, they were trying to get operators to move over to other options. Shipping companies will not put on services unless there is a reason, that is, where there are volumes of traffic to justify them. Once that became a reality, the shipping operators responded very quickly and we now have 13 services, compared with six back in 2019, with some 60 sailings a week directly to Europe. It has been a good success. Sometimes, people will not vote with their feet until the need is there to do so. The additional checks, controls and delays involved in going through the UK land bridge have put people off that route. Our understanding is that drivers really are finding the benefits of the new routes in terms of well-being, having the rests they should be having and so on.

I might call one of my colleagues to come in on the Deputy's question about the agrifood space. On the cross-Border point, the whole issue about the protocol is that we are not anticipating that there ever would be any checks. I do not know whether the Deputy is getting into the issue of rules of origin in terms of products moving north with inputs.