Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion

4:00 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Is that realistic? When Commissioner Moscovici appeared before the committee and I asked him, he said it does not exist anywhere in Europe. There is no third country that has a border with the European Union without having controls of some sort. Are we in fantasy land? Is it realistic to suggest there would be no border controls?