Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Discussion

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

An example was given of, say, an Irish citizen who is in resident in the North and moves South. Let us say someone applied for asylum in the North and that person would have a separate process that would be subject to a new arrangement in the UK context. Obviously, we will have the maintenance of the free travel area so what will the bilateral arrangement be in that context between the UK and Ireland? Will there be an homogenous data-sharing process? What will be the bilateral relationship? How does the EU feel about a bilateral relationship superseding the integrity of its legal framework under its treaty law? How will that be dealt with without a deal? Obviously, a deal is the optimum scenario but how happy is the EU to allow a serious of bilateral arrangements to exist separate from treaty law? As we know, it is very reluctant to allow countries to operate outside of that basis. Can the Minister give other examples, perhaps from the eastern Europe, where separate legal frameworks have been allowed to develop separate to the treaty framework?

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