Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his response.

I acknowledge the very significant effort that has been made by the Irish Government and by officials both in the Minister of State's Department and across the whole of Government since 2016 in formulating a response to the Brexit crisis. I do not think any of us in 2016 envisaged we would still be talking about this in the Dáil Chamber on the last day of the summer term in 2022. Unfortunately, we are where we are. While we can start talking about the blame game and the appalling behaviour of the British Government and of parties such as the DUP, with their scorpion and frog approach to Brexit, we have to be pragmatic in keeping up the efforts to support farm families on this island in the challenges Brexit presents and the potentially fatal challenges it might cause to some businesses also.

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