Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have one final question. The UK Nationality and Borders Act came in some months ago and it was all about limiting how people could come in at Dover. The then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson was at the time trying to put a block on illegal immigration into the UK. One of the upshots of that was a proposal that there would be form-filling and fee-paying to get over the Border to Northern Ireland, if you were not an Irish or British citizen. I think this would be quite unworkable. Up to 1998, very few people crossed over the Border on coach tours but since the Good Friday Agreement, they do. Many people take off from the west of Ireland, come up to Dublin and on into Northern Ireland. If you are carrying American passengers and if your driver is a Polish national, it will be very tricky. Each one of them has to get off the bus, fill out cumbersome forms, and pay a fee to get over the Border. Tourism Ireland, which is an all-Ireland body, says this is absolutely unworkable. Will the witnesses speak to that issue here? Can they comment on concerns about instances where there would be a coach going from counties in the Republic and crossing over the Border, and the difficulties this would mean for drivers and tourists?