The so-called “mapping exercise” was conducted in autumn 2017 but never shared with the select committee despite repeated requests from the chairman, the Labour MP Hilary Benn. Ireland’ prime minister Leo Varadkar said: “I’m glad that it now has been [published] and it really sketches out the very large number of areas where there is north-south cooperation, co-operation between Northern Ireland and Ireland. But the mapping exercise also lists “liaison, training, disaster planning, joint investigations and communications”. The government has never published its full Brexit impact statement for Northern Ireland. The mapping exercise does not detail the contingencies for police or for the supply of energy, for example.

Source: The Guardian June 20, 2019 12:04 UTC