The Belfast Agreement will not be “negatively impacted” by the Brexit agreement reached by the British cabinet, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil. “My reading is that the Good Friday Agreement is not negatively impacted,” he went on, emphasising that this included the recognition in the Republic that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom. The agreement will see the entire UK remaining in the customs union, but it will include additional measures for Northern Ireland to ensure there is no hard border. Mr Varadkar said he remembered when the “German parliament saw our budget before our parliament did, and that has to work both ways”. He did not want to be putting in the public domain documents that other parliaments had not seen.

Source: The Irish Times November 14, 2018 13:07 UTC