Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is proposed that the ESM would do that. To answer the question I was asked earlier, I am fully confident that the EU 27 have our back.

Each member state knows that I will not agree, nor will the Government, to anything that gives rise to a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

I have not heard anything from the Visegrád Group, V4, to give me concern. Deputy Micheál Martin said that that group is keen to negotiate a trade deal with the UK. Ireland would also like to have such a deal, but everyone realises that it will take-----

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