Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have ongoing contact with all the offices mentioned by the Deputy. With particular reference to the preparation of this legislation, there was specific contact with those agencies and with the Home Office and appropriate UK offices in order to ensure that we were in a position to formulate a schedule of laws and amendments and a regime that would mitigate against any adverse consequences. We should remember that all this is against the background of a contingency to prepare for a worst-case scenario.