Mr. Peter Sheridan:

Where we have the potential for an economic union across the island of Ireland, that might resolve many of those issues. I take the point made here by colleagues that the EU has already indicated that the common travel area does not seem to be the issue we had thought it was going to be. We have not got anywhere near the end of discussions on that but it looks as though the common travel area will remain in place. I think the issues that will become those of trade and customs and what impediments that puts on a border and how we minimise that to the maximum degree.