The council votes to list its Protocol checks after policy of non-implementation deemed 'inadmissable'
The Chief Executive of Ards and North Down Council has blocked a DUP proposal to end any checks in the borough made by council officers relating to the Brexit Protocol.
The new motion, by DUP Alderman Stephen McIlveen, states the council “reviews its policies in relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol, provides a list to members of measures currently undertaken in the implementation of that Protocol, and highlights which of these measures taken by the council are obligatory and which are discretionary.”
Alderman McIlveen told the chamber the original DUP motion was forwarded to “bring some clarity to a swirl of adverse and in part ill-informed publicity.” He added: “Unfortunately, given that this is an overwhelmingly unionist council, it does not allow us to state our opposition to the Protocol, in the terms I had hoped, but it will I hope afford clarity to those who seek to comment on the workings of the council in relation to that Protocol.
Alliance Councillor Hannah Irwin said: “It is important to remind members why we have the Protocol in the first place, as it often gets lost in these discussions. It is the necessary outworking of Brexit, pushed by the Conservative Party, pushed by the DUP, and their insistence on leaving the Single Market and Customs Market alongside dismissing any alternatives presented to them.”
She said: “The irony is in apparently anti-Protocol members actively seconding items relating to the service level agreement and implementation of the Protocol, and then action only being taken months later, after it was raised on a popular radio show. This arguably pokes a firm hole in the authenticity of any argument put out tonight.
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