Cathal Berry (Kildare South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his response. I appreciate he has to be much more circumspect than me when speaking in Parliament; I can comment much more freely. My point is that our two islands have solved vastly more complex problems than the protocol.

If the will is there, we can certainly do it again. There is a proposal floating around that we could treat goods travelling from Great Britain and staying in Northern Ireland differently from goods travelling from Great Britain through Northern Ireland and into this jurisdiction and, by extension, the EU Single Market. I would be grateful for the Minister's thoughts on that. I believe we can come up with a solution that respects the integrity of the EU Single Market but also that of the UK internal market.

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