Mr. John Finucane:

I want to address a point from the opening statement and what Ms Boyd said in her previous answers about compatibility with the protocol, particularly with regard to Articles 1 to 3, inclusive. Will she go into more detail on this? This is something quite fundamental. It goes to the heart of the British Government's bona fides with regard to adherence to the agreement that it entered into with the European Union, if it legislates in a way that is fundamentally against the first sentence of the protocol, which is that the Good Friday Agreement is sacrosanct and to be protected. The glib response that people will get used to it should not be that surprising from the current British Government. Ms Boyd said the Irish Government and parties in Westminster have raised it. At what level has the Irish Government raised it? What more can it do? What can we do as a committee? We are here as a committee to ensure that the Good Friday Agreement is respected, protected and implemented. What can we do? Correct me if I am wrong, but I see this as striking at the heart of the protocol and what it was designed to achieve, that is, having no hard border on the island of Ireland.