Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Can the Minister confirm that the common travel area ensures that all Irish and British citizens can continue to access further and higher education on a same-fees basis, as was the case prior to Brexit, and that no students from the North will be charged international fees at any of our educational institutions? This is a very specific question and the Minister may intend to make a statement on it.

Fishing has been central to every exchange we have had with the Minister regarding Brexit. As always, he has assured us that the Government will protect our fishers and our fishing communities. I find it disturbing, therefore, that so many of them feel they have been excluded. Who compiled the priority list of Irish licensed and registered fishing vessels seeking access to UK waters that was sent to the Commission after the full list was rejected? How were those vessels selected? What does the Minister say to the fishers who tell us that there is a total disconnect between the Government and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and fishing families?

I want to give the Minister time to respond, so I only have one more question. There is a lot of confusion among people who are finding that products ordered from the UK which would normally take five or six days to arrive have not yet been delivered a month later. They are finding that their purchases have got a distance but are now gone back to the manufacturer. What warning or advice would the Minister give Irish citizens when ordering goods from the UK?

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