Member

To be very crude about it, if you look at the impact assessment, you find that it shows the impact of this SI to be very slight. There is no real impact on business— I think the word used is negligible—and no direct costs to consumers were identified. This SI is not going to transform public opinion one way or another in Northern Ireland; it is just too intangible, as is so much of what has flowed from what is an inadequate deal with Europe, which has very bad roots, as was rightly said by the noble Lord, Lord Frost.