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

I do not have the exact costs for the delegation to Davos. There was a delegation of five. Accommodation costs were approximately €7,000. The Government jet was used so the only added cost was fuel and car transport from Zurich to Davos.

I like broadcast media because anyone interested can get to hear the question and answer in full and, therefore, know the context. In Davos, I was asked by an international journalist from Bloomberg to paint a picture of what a hard border could look like in a worst-case scenario. I am often accused of spin but I am more likely to give a straight answer to a straight question, which is exactly what I did. I painted a picture of what a hard border might look like in a worst-case scenario. I painted a picture of what hard borders look like all over the world and what the hard border used to look like when we had one in Ireland 30 years ago, although I may have incorrectly said 20 years.

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