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

There may need to be. What we would like to do first is resolve the EU–UK relationship and have an EU–UK treaty on the future economic and security relationships. If individual countries need bilateral agreements that do not conflict with that, they may well be necessary.

With regard to the common travel area, it is true that there is no single piece of paper that states what the common travel area is. It is interwoven with many items of legislation, conventions and protocols involving Britain and Ireland. I can say for certain that both the Irish and UK Governments want to keep the common travel area in place. Our European partners are happy for us to do that, accepting that this is an arrangement between the United Kingdom and Ireland that is unique and predates our membership of the European Union.

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