Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raise these questions because I am a Deputy who represents a Border county. If I or others want to travel to south Armagh from County Louth, a 30-minute journey, we do not want to have to produce green cards in order to do so. I also asked the also at the meeting last Wednesday if he had intervened specifically to deal with the issue of some form of dispensation. Some 25 million journeys are made via 300 Border crossings on an annual basis. I had said that unless the EU, the British Government and the Minister on behalf of this Government stepped in, a dispensation would not be possible. I ask the Minister again. Did he meet them to discuss this specific issue of a dispensation, what was the outcome and to whom did he speak? Did he also make reference to recognising the existing relationship in respect of motor insurance cover, North and South, without requirement for green cards? Did he raise the common travel area? Did he ask if this dispensation could be accommodated under the Good Friday Agreement?

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