Micheál Martin: “A definitive decision will be taken so that anything that's required legislatively, or whatever, would be done in good…”

We need to be economically competitive in order to sustain the European way of life.

I am advised that the legal threshold cannot currently be met.

Because of this solidarity, the impact of that decision has been reduced. Thankfully we have avoided many of the worst impacts seen by the UK itself which the British people themselves increasingly recognise.

It has far greater reach than what was there before, in terms of the US for example.