Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality
11:00 am
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Forgive me for labouring on the point, but the very clear focus for the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is the issue of people going over and back across the Border. The EU does not have any real issue because we are outside the Schengen Agreement, and it is not going to request or require us to act. That had been a concern raised at the committee, and we could not quite get a clear answer. It has been answered quite clearly now that the EU is not going to ask us to put gardaí at the Border or immigration officers at the Border for people coming in. The only people who are going to be asking for that would be British, if they wish. It is up to them.
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