Mr. Declan Fearon:

I will answer the Senator's first question and then let Mr. Sheridan talk about the agricultural end of the matter.

I hope there was no confusion about the inclusion in our submission of the reference to the Frontex document. What we are looking at in that regard on some eastern European borders is exactly what we do not want to see here. To go back to Dr. McDonnell's point, the bottom line for our committee and anybody opposed to the imposition of a hard border is that the Border should no longer run along the 300 mile stretch from Derry to Dundalk. People on all sides of the community have to face up to the fact that it would be impossible to reimpose such an arrangement. It would have to be imposed at the ports and airports of Ireland. The Border would have to be shifted in that way. I know that would have political connotations and would frighten people in the Unionist community, but they would be interrupted in their day-to-day lives as badly as Nationalists.

It is not a green and orange issue up there. That Border cannot be reimposed as a land border here in Ireland. It will certainly have to be at the ports and the airports. As I say, if we gave the impression that the type of border we want is what Frontex has imposed in other areas of Europe, certainly not, it is the opposite to that.