Member

Then we have the pointless nature of these regulations. We have had the 19 May summit and the agreement working towards an SPS agreement. We will wait and see what the detail of that is. One thing we have learned over the years is not to take at face value what might be agreed or not or generalities but to wait to see what the EU legislation says—not the UK Government spin or Command Papers or Explanatory Notes—because, remember, that is the only thing that counts. EU legislation is the law of the land in Northern Ireland across all these areas, so all the rest of it is spin and propaganda. When we see the EU text then we will know what the reality is.