Windsor Framework

There's an Equality Commission and a Human Rights Commission who were extremely important in Brexit.

You don't get human rights parts of the Windsor Framework or Northern Ireland Protocol without those bodies.

But also, just a shout out to the amazing grassroots human rights organisations in Northern Ireland who are incredible at their jobs, like bringing Michelle Barnier along the border to explain to them how your lived experience was going to be affected by this.

They're an incredible group of people.

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which basically just accepts that rather than saying we have a neat hierarchy that's vertical in nature, what we actually have is at every level they're sort of like branching out in different types of shapes with civil service actors coming in, helping define some of these rules.

So as Aoife mentioned, the Equality Commission and the Human Rights Commission intervening to say, hey, the Windsor Framework needs to acknowledge how life works on the island of Ireland.

We can't have different rules applying in the Republic and in Northern Ireland when it comes to human rights.

There's a third way where they remain British, but That Northern

Ireland agreement, the Chris Heath and Harris agreement, the Windsor framework, was a piece of dodgy wording, but beautifully devised, which actually gives people in Northern Ireland a taste of what we could have, where we could be partly in the European Union and partly independent.

I think that's the political message we need.

We should join Northern Ireland in the Windsor Framework construction.

We should.

I would be there tomorrow.

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I'll give him that.

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when this story started to break, I was reading a little bit about that, you know, what are we gonna call it? The, the Windsor Protocol.

I think it was the Sandringham Protocol, wasn't it? Where the-

Windsor Protocol was Rishi Sunak with-

Was Rishi Sunak and, and, and sort of-

And Northern Ireland

Yeah.

They will not have an inside track on what is going on.

Kieran helps businesses navigate customs, trade, compliance, and CBAMP across Northern Ireland, the UK, and the EU.

He has particular expertise in the post-Brexit trade and Windsor framework.

Also joining me today is Andy Proctor.

He's a carbon and energy specialist with Auditel and he's also an ambassador and accredited trainer for the IACBAM organisation.

That's a comprehensive answer.

Thank you.

So I suppose all of these changes really came about post-Brexit with the Windsor framework, that side of things.

Is there any time limit to the way this is set up? Or is there any potential for this to change in the near future? Or is this the agreement as it is for now?

And in Northern Ireland, if you look at the recent inward investment of American companies coming to Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland is in the best economic place possible because we have triple market access.

This thing called the Windsor Framework and the UK coming out of the European Union has benefited Northern Ireland beyond belief.

And when you see the fact that we have a trade agreement with the US, tariff free, and we can move stuff in between the EU and back again, that is just, we could be the Singapore of the Northern Hemisphere.

And that for us is just phenomenal.

But if you look at it in the supply chain, it is the paracetamol to a massive headache.

And that headache globally is worth about $11.3 trillion.

And you block what he was born out of a need to move goods between GB and Northern Ireland under the Windsor Framework.

We seen back whenever Brexit hit, goods not on shelves, no products coming over, just the challenge because we hadn't done customs or regulatory information in so many years because we were part of the eu so whenever things changed i don't think the work was done well enough to put us into a place where we could move seamlessly so we had the opportunity in 2020 to solve the problem And having worked with Professor Elliot in the food sector, I understood the complexities of the food we eat from raw material all the way through to finished product.