Great Britain to Northern Ireland Trade

Part of Private Members' Business – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 4:45 pm on 16 September 2024.

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Photo of Steve Aiken Steve Aiken UUP 4:45, 16 September 2024

I thank the Member very much indeed for giving way. One of the issues that we had recently with, for example, dental amalgam was that a derogation made by the European Union did not have a legal basis. What is the Member's party's position on supporting wider derogation? His party members on the Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee have taken a more absolutist route. Do you think that we should be much more open to derogation?