Mr. Daniel Holder:

The Bill is in the House of Lords. Amendments have been tabled by Margaret Ritchie and others to try to knock out the electronic travel authorisation, ETA, system applying to the land border, and I assume that will be subject to a vote. It is at a fairly late stage. If it does pass through Westminster, the mechanism will not be introduced immediately. There is a possibility it might be defeated in the second chamber, but we have to see. If not, it will be brought in over a number of years.

To add to the issue of racial profiling and so forth, our perspective is quite clear. The United Nations anti-racism committee has recorded some concerns about racial profiling in Garda operations. To go back to the community level, and to be openly clear about what we are saying, it is very much the lived experience of people of colour in Border communities that this is the basis on which they are singled out and on which they are assumed not to be British or Irish citizens and therefore required to produce a passport on the cross-Border buses. It is an inevitable consequence of legislation that differentiates different groups of people as to whether they are or are not required to carry and produce passports on those cross-Border journeys.