Ms Oonagh Duggan:

One of the worries if there was to be a no-deal Brexit - I hope there will not be - is whether the framework would be in place in Northern Ireland to have new environmental legislation separate from the European framework. It would have to be new. The question is whether it would be in place and sufficient to ensure that if somebody was to dump a load of waste on one side of the Border, the matter would be regulated. What about pollution? We hope we would not see a gap in which people could get around the law. That is a worst-case scenario, but sometimes these things happen. Our concern is there would be a diminution in the legal protection provided for the environment and that there would be environmental problems thereafter.