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Simon Coveney, the Irish foreign minister, said this morning that the resignation of Paul Givan as Northern Ireland’s first minister yesterday was “very unwelcome”. But, in an interview with RTE, Coveney said Givan’s resignation “doesn’t change much” with regard to the ongoing UK-EU negotiations about the future of the Northern Ireland protocol.
He said:
To be fair to the DUP, they’ve been saying for some time, that if they didn’t get what they were asking for in relation to the protocol that they would do this. And now they’ve gone ahead and done it. But it’s certainly very unwelcome.
It doesn’t change much actually, in the context of the negotiations that are going on between Liz Truss and Maroš Šefčovič – the two key negotiators who are trying to find common ground on how we implement the Northern Ireland Protocol in a way that everybody can accept. Those discussions and negotiations continue and were continuing yesterday.
Being honest, I wouldn’t have said it and I’m glad that the prime minister clarified what he meant.
We have always been the party of sound money – we will always continue to be on my watch – and that is the only kind of party I am interested in.