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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 29 January 2025
Debate
Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2024Contribution
We are going to have this for goods coming from the Republic of Ireland through Northern Ireland into Britain, but we cannot possible have it for goods coming from Northern Ireland or from Britain into the Irish Republic. Oh no; that would be contrary to the Belfast agreement, for some reason, and to any right and rational approach. Of course it is not. If it is perfectly possible to do it in one direction, it should be possible to do it in the other. This is perfectly sensible.
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