Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a very simple question for her and I will pose it again. The Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, when he was a Minister travelled to Donegal during the leadership election campaign and made a commitment to the Fine Gael members there. He said clearly, and stated this publicly, that he, as Taoiseach, would campaign for the North to remain within the customs union and within the single economic union to ensure there is no economic border on the island of Ireland. Can the Tánaiste state that this is Government policy? We need to get real about this discussion about a frictionless, seamless and an invisible Border and a hard Border. Is the position of the Irish Government that the North would remain within the customs union? Is it bringing that to the negotiating table at the European Council meeting today? Can the Tánaiste inform us what she is doing to address the fact that only one out of 20 companies has any type of plan for Britain leaving the customs union?

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