Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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The irony of that is that the countries that did that deal with the EU accepted some of the principles that are very problematic for a British Government to accept. That is the crux of it. Hopefully, it will be resolved. It has to be resolved. It is going to be a very interesting point as to how the British Government moves. There is also the Commission and its new mandate is starting. It will be interesting to see the way it will think. We need to maintain the willingness to engage that started to emerge at the end of the last Commission. We need to make sure that it remains and does not get sidetracked by issues happening elsewhere on the Commission's agenda.