Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not quite sure what new formal institutions the Deputy wishes to see. I again make it quite clear that the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union and the negotiations that are about to commence must take full account of and show the fullest of respect to all the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement. On the basis of our intensive political and diplomatic engagement over the past year, we have received very heartening support from our EU partners in this regard and are now about to pursue these through the formal negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom. We have not been in negotiations with the United Kingdom; we have had discussions. Now we will be in a position to engage through the European Union in the context of the formal negotiations. We will not sell the Good Friday Agreement short. We will not engage in any renegotiation of the Good Friday Agreement in response to the British policy of Brexit. The legal and political obligations of both the Irish and British Governments under the Good Friday Agreement remain unchanged, and this will continue-----

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