Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This House voted by majority to have special economic status for Northern Ireland and to maintain the customs union on the island of Ireland. The Government voted against it. I have done everything I can to explain the consequences of not having both parts of the island in the same customs union, certainly to my colleagues in the British Labour Party. We need reports such as the one prepared by the Revenue Commissioners to underscore that work because there is extraordinary naivete, if not blindness, to this reality among politicians in Britain.

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