Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Representatives of the Committee on the Administration of Justice, CAJ, were before the UK Northern Ireland Affairs Committee during the week. They described the provision as "unworkable and risks a hard border for many non-British and non-Irish citizens in Border communities who have been able to freely cross the Border to date". This underlines the divergence and convergence that have been talked about in terms of Brexit and the direction of travel in which the British Government is bringing us. It undermines the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement. We have discussed this matter at meetings of the British-Irish Parliamentary Association, BIPA, the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and with the Department of Foreign Affairs but we need Ministers to continue to be vocal about this huge issue for the whole island.