Mr. Colin Caughey:

The recitals to the Ireland-Northern Ireland protocol provide that Irish citizens in Northern Ireland will retain their EU citizenship rights. It is a question of what those rights are. We have been working with the task force to identify and drill down into the specific rights that Irish citizens will retain. We discussed earlier the question of whether such people will have representation in the European Parliament. It is now a matter of drilling down in more detail into the question of what rights EU citizens in Northern Ireland will have.