Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We do not have anything like the number of personnel Britain will have, but we have support from ICTU, IBEC and NGOs. As this develops and we form an opinion for the month of November, it will be important that we have an agreed position as to what we should look for because we still do not know and will not know for some time what the British Government will look for. Our interests must be protected, including our links with the United Kingdom and the European Union. I explained in Bratislava to some of the leaders that it was difficult to get the concept if asked by Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia or Slovenia about the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. It is important that we continue to explain just how particular is our relationship with these countries.

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