Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My apologies for missing the first part of the presentation. This area may have been covered but, as Deputy Wallace said, we had a presentation last week from members of An Garda Síochána and the PSNI. Many farms straddle the Border and some farmland crosses the Border, as do a range of other businesses. Has there been any collaborative work with the Ulster Farmers Union, UFU? Some farmers there did bring pressure to bear on the PSNI and An Garda Síochána to work collaboratively.

If those organisations joined up more in awareness-raising campaigns or working collaboratively to make the policing response happen more effectively, is that something the IFA would see as a positive thing? That was something we stressed to both organisations last week. Mr. Kennedy is right. My experience of policing in an urban context in the North is similar to the problems the IFA has flagged. I refer to divisional differences and even differences within the branches within the PSNI. They do not talk to each other to tackle problems as they appear. Has the IFA explored that kind of work with its colleagues in the UFU? In the context we are looking at, not the least of which with the onset of Brexit is the hardening of any differences in policing styles along the Border, which none of us wants to see, what would the views of the IFA on that be?