Nigel Dodds – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nigel Dodds on 2015-11-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Irish government on security at airport and ferry ports in the Republic of Ireland.

James Brokenshire

Home Office Ministers and officials have regular contact with their Irish counterparts; there is excellent government and operational level co-operation to prevent those seeking to abuse the CTA arrangement from doing so.

In particular, we are working together to further align our respective border and visa policy processes in order to strengthen the external CTA border.