Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I assure the Deputy that these issues are very high on our agenda. I recently hosted a meeting near the Border at Carrick-on-Shannon at which the matters identified by the Deputy were raised. The meeting was attended by more than 250 small and medium business owners, as well as IDA Ireland organisations and representatives of IBEC and the Small Firms Association. We will be fighting hard to achieve a frictionless Border. As the Taoiseach has said, that is one of our main priorities as the negotiations on Brexit begin. I am very much aware of the concerns of the 7.5% of workers in County Donegal whose daily lives would become intolerable if there is a hard physical Border.

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