Mr. John Nolan:

Mr. Drennan references a plan B. What I have always said with regards a plan B is that there needs to be an agreement between the Irish and the British with regard to the freight of sanitary goods. Basically, the veterinary people on either side need to agree on a list of products where the checks can be minimised from where they are at the moment. There are a lot of products that are common to Northern Ireland and southern Ireland that stay on the island of Ireland. They are of no risk to the Common Market or common trade area, yet, the inspections that are required to bring them into the Republic of Ireland will now be severe when compared with bringing the same goods into Northern Ireland. Something needs to be done about that. This is why I say the Republic of Ireland should get the same easements Northern Ireland gets on some veterinary goods. This will be to protect the common trade area, as well as to make the goods flow into southern Ireland as easily as they can now flow into Northern Ireland.