I support Senator Bacik's call regarding the Smithwick tribunal report, if I have not done so already. I think I did last week. The judge and his team put a tremendous amount of work into that, not just the report but everything they did over the last number of years. It is unfortunate that some people who eventually came to them in private refused to submit themselves to be tested and cross-examined in the public sessions. In that report the judge made a vital recommendation on the wonderful co-operation that exists between the Garda Síochána and the PSNI that there be a more structured, focused and defined approach rather than an ad hoc approach. Because of the alleged smuggler mentality, with which Senator Wilson and others would be much more familiar than I, that is alleged to exist on both sides of the Border-----

I hope the Senator is not accusing me of being a smuggler. He must withdraw that remark.

Senator Wilson is a most upright gentleman. I would never suggest anything other than that.

Thank you.

Senator Coghlan, be careful of your adjectives because-----

I thank the Chair for his guidance, as ever. Because of that we need something further there. I propose, as I have done before, establishing some suitably located joint offices as an aid to the Garda and the PSNI in policing that allegedly difficult area on both sides. There are buildings along the Border that might be a little bit on one side or the other. That does not matter. Such offices or stations should be available jointly to the Garda and the PSNI to work from.

Stephen Collins wrote about that.

There is so much going on in that territory such as diesel laundering, cigarette smuggling and many other illegal activities. That would greatly assist them.

The Senator is crossing the time border.

Then I should finish.