Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Tánaiste. The intergovernmental conference will probably have to be upgraded post Brexit as we will not have the same formal or informal meetings with our UK colleagues. Was there any discussion about this? Obviously that is something we will have to look into. What practical steps are going to be taken in relation to the 2014 Stormont House Agreement on legacy issues? This needs to be dealt with. Were there any discussions about security issues and, if so, how in depth were they?

What concrete discussions were there about east-west matters? For instance, and this is important, was there any discussion about the common travel area and how that will work and the need to put the rights of citizens into law so that Irish and British citizens, for instance, can continue to reside, use public services and, indeed, vote in each other’s countries? The Tánaiste might outline some progress on those issues.

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