Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the Stormont stalemate cannot be allowed indefinitely.
The framework, negotiated by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier this year and approved by Parliament, proposes reduced checks on goods travelling directly to Northern Ireland from Great Britain, to reduce trade barriers within the UK.
Mr Heaton-Harris and Mr Varadkar were in Belfast, with European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic, to launch a new joint peace funding programme.Last week Mr Varadkar said he believed he would see a united Ireland in his lifetime, and has previously discussed the potential for a “plan B” if devolved government in Northern Ireland was not restored by the autumn.“There’s a responsibility, actually, to kind of allow this process to continue.
He added: “I think devolution can be restored and, to be frank, I don’t think it would be a Plan B because, whatever was happening, we’d be constantly trying to make sure that the executive got back up and running. “So it would be an evolution of process rather than an alternative to try and get the executive. But both those two things can run together.”“I’m keen to make sure that we come to a conclusion and the executive is up and running in the shortest period of time,” he said.
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