Member

Last week in this House we talked about duty-free in airports within Northern Ireland. Again, it was the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, who raised the issue. The rationale given by the Minister then was that one of the major parts of this is to prevent us having to have some form of customs regulations in airports for flights going into the Irish Republic from Northern Ireland. Yet this was a solution engineered for a situation where there were no flights going from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.