Inter-parliamentary Dialogue

Part of Private Members' Business – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 4:00 pm on 18 October 2021.

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Photo of Stewart Dickson Stewart Dickson Alliance 4:00, 18 October 2021

Thank you. I will defer to the Member on that. Of course, he will recognise that the EU and the United Kingdom must have a final arbitration system to determine where they are going. For the European Union, it is the European Court of Justice; in the United Kingdom, it is the Supreme Court. They both must have those mechanisms. Of course, what the Member fails to remember is that, in all the negotiations, past and current, there have been many resolution mechanisms that should resolve all those problems long before the two organs or bodies would ever go to their specific courts to deal with those matters. It is a red herring, at the end of the day.