Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact that the UK Government is moving towards regulatory alignment for agricultural and manufactured products in a possible Brexit deal, but we need other regulatory alignments. I cite the example of regulations for the environment, which knows no borders. Do we know whether regulatory alignment will apply to the likes of the habitats directive, the water framework directive and the nitrates directive? Will those directives be justiciable on all of this island via the Court of Justice of the European Union? The waters of the Shannon rise in Fermanagh. The water that arrives in a house in Dundalk crosses the Border three or four times on its journey from its source. Slurry coming from certain Northern Ireland farms will be spread in the South. Are we certain that this regulatory alignment is also now agreed?

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