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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: Living on the Border is one thing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: -----we all live on the island.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: Nobody wants a border but my point, confirmed by the Tánaiste, is that this agreement is not a guarantee of no border at any time in the future. That is simply not how the process works and it is disingenuous to suggest otherwise. It is also disingenuous to suggest this is a permanent arrangement. There is a rolling consent mechanism whereby a vote must take place every four years,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: It is a permanent structure in the sense that the vote will take place. It is not a permanent solution to the border issue because the vote could go either way, as is its purpose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: I know it is. We are relying on that majority voting how we want it to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: I will focus on the east-west relations in a moment but I was mainly focusing on the issues relating to Northern Ireland. I came from the ISME conference today where we had a discussion on Brexit. There is an acceptance that rolling consent creates uncertainty because it could go either way. The transition period is 14 months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: We have until the end of 2020 under the current transition period. The UK Government said that it does not want to go beyond 2020. If it wants to take the one or two-year extension provided, it has to make that application by June of next year. That may not happen. At the end of 2020, we could have a hard exit by Great Britain, which will impacts on east-west trade. There is no guarantee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: I am aware of that. I disagree on that point as well. We do not know what FTA we will have. We have no idea. We can roughly say today what the position of the UK Government. It wants zero tariffs and wants to strike its own trade deals. It is not interested in level playing field provisions. Deregulation seems to be the policy of the day. That is a far cry from where the EU is at....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: We do not even know what they are yet. The past three years have shown us that anything can happen. The policy of the UK Government is worrying on this. The FTA it wants is not the agreement the EU is going to give. If the UK pursues the policy it is currently pursuing on deregulation and striking new trade deals, we will have a difficulty because our jurisdiction will not move in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: We can, but being straight with people about the fact that nothing is guaranteed, the rolling-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: Preparing businesses is fine and I have met many of them earlier. The Minister cannot come in here today, however, and say that there is a permanent solution to Northern Ireland and that the consent is just something we can accept and assume will go our way every four years. None of us can, particularly as elected-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: That is exactly the point I am making. As elected representatives, we have to be straight about the possibility that it may not go our way. We hope that it does but we are relying now on an inherently unreliable-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: We are relying now on an inherently unreliable political Assembly in the North to guarantee no Border on this island for decades to come. It is a precarious position to be in. It is not desirable. It is a far cry from what was considered a good solution, which was the original policy of the backstop. Any suggestion that this solution is better than the backstop is not true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: It is better than nothing but it is not a great deal.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (22 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland will have access to the European Court of Justice in the event of a no-deal Brexit. [43358/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 378. To ask the Minister for Health when Mayo University Hospital will receive a modular unit for the emergency department with 12 to 20 beds (details supplied). [43377/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (22 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for an outpatient appointment in Mayo University Hospital; and the length of time each has been waiting, in tabular form. [43378/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (22 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Mayo waiting for an outpatient appointment in CHO 2; the facility they are waiting to receive the appointment; the length of time they have been waiting; and the procedure they are waiting for, that is, hip replacement, knee replacement and so on in tabular form [43379/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (22 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the posts at Mayo University Hospital that have been offered to applicants but are awaiting a start date. [43380/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (22 Oct 2019)

Lisa Chambers: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the vacancies across all departments in Mayo University Hospital; the length of time the posts have been vacant; the status of the vacant posts; and when they will be filled, in tabular form. [43381/19]