Speeches by Robinson.

“You have heard that. Yet no joint operations, no curiosity about how people are able to land, and no discussions about how to close those avenues.”

“So it is a power issue. It is nothing to do with the CTA.”

“Yes, once they might come close to Great Britain. It doesn’t matter for how long they are in Northern Ireland.”

“No—have you been asked by Border Force to provide that power to them?”

“So how is it happening? I am curious about that. As part of this discussion, we should be curious about that. How is it happening? If we are talking to the Irish—because that is where they are landing, in Dublin, Cork or Shannon, for example—are we not curious to ask, “How are people flying from non-CTA countries in th…”

“Does anyone on the panel have an answer to that?”

“Every citizen of our country is going to be busted over the next couple of weeks trying to make sure they have the right documentation before they queue for hours and go through a process to make sure their holiday can be realised rather than rejected, and yet there seems to be a lack of curiosity around this. We have …”

“Thank you.”

“You cannot operate without PSNI.”

“You could do it with the PSNI.”

“Alex, who do you believe is responsible for protecting and policing the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic?”

“Are you aware of people landing in Dublin and being told by Irish officials where to get the bus to Belfast, so they can present themselves?”

“Have you ever considered a joint operation with PSNI?”

“Good afternoon to you all. Duncan, I want to direct this to you, if that is okay. It seems to me that the frailty of your posture or the posture generally is that a lot of the focus is on airports and seaports. By definition, that means people are either illegally or irregularly within the United Kingdom until they eve…”

“We would appreciate your writing to us. I would just indicate to you that for four months, when I was raising the issue of An Garda Síochána and the Irish Government not facilitating requests from ICRIR, all the Northern Ireland Office ever said was that it was engaged in positive discussions. The Northern Ireland Offi…”

“Do you have more detail than the five or six paragraphs on the last page of a 10-page document on the framework?”

“Can you outline your confidence in such a change being attained?”

“Sir Declan, in this endeavour, as chief commissioner, is it your responsibility to ensure a change of culture, so that these circumstances do not arise again, or do you believe that that is an executive function?”

“Sir Declan, just a slight pivot before I move on to Ms Clark: you know that the draft legislation is before Parliament, and that there are scores of Back-Bench amendments, particularly from members of this Committee, and a huge range of Government amendments set to be published. Do you think there is sufficient shared …”

“Josephine, you indicated earlier that you joined in January this year, and therefore probably just a number of weeks before the conclusion of the Peter May report. How would you characterise that work environment when you entered it?”