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"Madam President, this report calls for harmonisation of controls at all points of entry into the customs union and for increased surveillance and security measures. I want to talk to you about Ireland post—Brexit. There are 277 roads crossing the border in Ireland. This is not counting farms that straddle the border nor houses where you enter the front door on one side of the border and leave it through the other side. Now during the conflict in Ireland cross—border smuggling was a daily occurrence. Among the achievements of the Good Friday Agreement was that smuggling was dramatically reduced.
If the might of the British military could not close the border, EU customs officials will not be able to close it; mission impossible. So bringing back customs posts on the border in Ireland will be unworkable as well as politically unacceptable and also an invitation to smugglers to set up shop on the border. Increased surveillance and security will be a direct threat to the peace process if the controls are located on the border in Ireland. The integrity of the customs union demands that a solution be found which keeps the north of Ireland in the EU and in the customs union and the only way to achieve this, short of Irish unity, is through designated special status within the EU and it is something that the Irish Government and this Parliament must insist on."@en1
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