Is there any provision whereby the Irish Government should be informed regarding any ship either in or near Irish territorial waters?

That is a separate question.

Is there any provision whereby the integrity of Irish waters would be safeguarded by the compulsory relaying to the Government of information regarding ships in or near Irish territorial waters?

While that supplementary may be related to the question it is really a separate matter.

Perhaps the Deputy would table a question in that regard.

In other words, the Minister does not know the answer.

It does not follow that I do not know the answer. If I were to answer every supplementary asked that is not related to the subject matter of the questions, I would be here all day.

The Minister was not too concerned regarding the previous collision and presumably we may not expect too much on this occasion either.

That worked out much better than the Deputy thought it would work out.

That remains to be seen.