Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----unless we get a picture of what that is. The context of the withdrawal agreement and the backstop changes entirely if one changes the red lines of the future relationship declaration.

On the common travel area, CTA, the plan is to shortly sign what is needed to trigger the preparation of the necessary legislation in Dublin and London to ensure, as Deputy Rabbitte mentioned earlier, that we can give reassurance to people on pensions and so on. There are many people in Ireland who get pensions from the UK. I hope that next week Members will see next week the heads of the legislation and we will go through the detail of that then.

I also do not accept the premise of the Deputy's first question, namely, the assumption that we must protect the integrity of the Single Market above all else means that we have to impose a border if there is no deal.

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