A voluntary code of practice for the haulage industry was agreed in 2001. This encourages best practice by hauliers to prevent illegal immigrants entering a state hidden in vehicles. That followed discussions involving the Departments of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and Public Enterprise, the Garda national emigration bureau and the Irish Road Hauliers Association. The Immigration Bill 2002 provides that hauliers may be prosecuted if they are responsible for bringing people into a country with inadequate immigration documentation. There have been discussions between the Department and the IRHA with regard to this legislation. Informal guidelines are already in place and I ask the Senator to accept that including a mandatory provision such as this will only complicate life. For example, if it transpires that a guideline, for whatever reason, is undesirable, should the Act fall into abeyance between a problem arising, on one hand, and it being solved by further guidelines, on the other? There would be a free for all in the period during which I tried to deal with a problem that had already arisen in respect of one guideline, which I wanted to withdraw and replace.