Dr. Katy Hayward:

I was going to say the same thing but also that we should not confuse the issue of travel with citizenship rights. The Irish Government would first have to follow up in paying for that for Irish citizens in the North, as Ms Taillon was saying, who might have Irish citizenship and take EU citizenship and then access services abroad. The Irish Government would be responsible for paying for that. In addition, the common travel area is not an easy solution and does not relate to rights per se; it relates to not being subject to immigration controls when one enters. It needs to be much more formalised, which would be an incredibly complicated process, if it is to address matters such as access to services, rights of residency, access to social benefits and so on.