Taoiseach LeoVaradkar says he will not allow concerns over his personal safety to stop him visiting Northern Ireland
The protocol avoided the need for goods checks at the Irish border by arranging checks at Northern Ireland ports on goods arriving from Great Britain.
This arrangement angered unionists, who say it undermines the UK's internal UK market and the union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Northern Ireland's biggest unionist party, the Democratic Unionist Party pulled out of Stormont's ruling executive in protest over the protocol, meaning Northern Ireland has been without a devolved government for almost 10 months."I'm keen to visit Northern Ireland, meet with parties in the early new year, I'm keen to speak to the prime minister as soon as possible and see if we can come to an agreement," he said.
"I don't think that an agreement on the protocol necessarily unlocks the Northern Ireland assembly and executive, but I do think that we will need an agreement on the protocol before that can be done. "I'm very keen to make that happen. I think it'd be a real shame if we got to the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement next April and in a situation where we're marking that but with no assembly, no executive, no power-sharing up and running.".
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