Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact there seems to be a significant amount of interaction in dealing with this. I also welcome the Tánaiste's own interactions with regard to all the stakeholders. Can I take from his answer that, at this time, he does not foresee any major issues with regard to this particular implementation and that if there are, we have sufficient facility to deal with it? We all know the issue and, in fairness to the Government here and businesses across this island, Brexit was something that was forced upon us. It is a reality we have to deal with.

I have a wider question, and that relates to official interactions with the British Government on those numerous issues. We all know what has happened with the issue of migration, and it probably was not that helpful that it played out in the public domain in the way it did. As I said, it was the issue that was brought up by Bertie Ahern at the EU affairs committee. He said he believed there were a lot more official interactions during his time and that was able to deal with some of these issues before they would necessarily blow up in the way we have seen recently.

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