Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not accept that. I have an agreement with the British Prime Minister that there would be no return to the borders of the past, that is, customs posts along the Border. I have seen the reports from customs consultants and those who work in customs in different locations around the world discussing how one might deal with the borders. We have an invisible Border, as the Deputy well knows. We have an agreement with the British Government that we will not have a return to the kind of Border that previously existed. This is not a legal challenge or a technological challenge; it is a political challenge. Just as we had no political answers to many matters in the past, we must find an answer to this one. Brexit is a British policy introduced because of the vote of the people in the UK, which I do not like but which I respect. I have issued no instructions to people to assess where parking lots on either side of the Border might be established. As far as I am concerned, I am standing on a position I have agreed clearly with the British Prime Minister of no return to such a Border of the past.