Health and Social Services referred the complaint from some residents of the Albert and Victoria apartments to the Housing Committee, whose president, Deputy Terry Le Main, thought that it was a joke.

In replying to an act from the committee about the complaint made under the Statutory Nuisance (Jersey) Law 1999 in relation to the noise of boats in the marina, he said: ‘Well, what can I say? ‘When I first read this I thought it was a hoax or someone having a joke.