Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

In these negotiations, there is a big difference between asking and telling. Frankly, I do not think we should be asking. People in Ireland, Britain, in the North and in the South of this island say they want to maintain the common travel area. It should simply be told to the European Union that that is going to be the situation and that we are not accepting anything less than that. I believe we should say the same thing about any question of reimposing a hard Border between North and South. It is just not acceptable.

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