Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We understood from Prime Minister May yesterday and reports in the British media that the Brexit legislation is likely to come before the UK Houses of Parliament for voting in or around 7 March and that at that point she will be readying herself for the EU summit meeting of Heads of Government in Malta. The timelines are getting very much shorter. Thus far, the Taoiseach has been giving us general outlines of his wish list but he has not told us in any detail Ireland's list of "must do's" regarding Brexit. While there has been much focus, understandably, on the implications for cross-Border activity between the North and South and for the island of Ireland, the fact remains, nonetheless, that in the Republic alone Brexit has implications for tens of thousands of jobs.

Has the Taoiseach proposed to the British Government that the Brexit legislation should include a clause relating to Northern Ireland and the fact that people there have not voted for Brexit and, under the Belfast Agreement, have a special relationship with the rest of the island?

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