Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Senator McDowell would know much better than me about this. The complication is that bringing a box of corn flakes from Birmingham to Belfast is UK transport. If we open up the notion of this same box of cornflakes coming from outside the EU into the EU there is a difficulty which my colleague has mentioned. As soon as we start bringing goods in without checks to the Single Market the fear is that people will say we will have to have checks on goods going from the island of Ireland into the rest of Europe.