I echo Senator Finucane's comments on preparedness, as one can only imagine the devastation that would be caused to our coastline and the economic impact on tourism and fishing if we experienced a nasty oil spillage. The Minister referred to the Erika, which broke up in the Bay of Biscay in December 1999. I recall that we were then discussing in our house where we would go on our holidays the following year and France was the location under discussion. At the time we wondered how the beaches would be but the French took on the job to an extraordinary level. When we went to France the following summer I asked people how they had coped and most of the work of cleaning up the beaches was done voluntarily. There was not a single sign of the damage that had been done.