Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I am far from infallible, particularly this morning. We raised a number of issues on this section last night and I do not wish to be repetitious, but the section and many of the arguments in defence of it are being dealt with in a different fashion.

The section begins with the phrase: "Where a vehicle arrives in the State from a place other than Great Britain or Northern Ireland.". The Channel Isles and the Isle of Man have now been added. That is what the section is about. There are tasks the carrier must carry out and, as the House is aware, our party does not agree with that. They are things that must be done on board the vehicle. The Minister was positively eloquent about aeroplanes last night. It is easier to talk about them because of the process, as much for security as for anything else, by which people check in for flights.