Willie Hay recounts being stopped by Gardái on Derry/Donegal border while arguing checkpoints happening on a ‘daily basis’ - video Dailymotion

Willie Hay recounts being stopped by Gardái on Derry/Donegal border while arguing checkpoints happening on a ‘daily basis’

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00:00We've had the great argument here about whether we should have a border on the mainland. Let me say

00:08to you, I live about five miles from the border and across it regularly, living in the city of

00:14Londonderry, and I have to say I've noticed continually now, the guards have checked

00:19continually on the border now, on all major border roads. Why? Because of immigrants using Northern

00:28Ireland to go into the south. In fact, I was crossing the border very recently, and my own

00:34car was stopped, boot checked, bonnet checked, and there was quite a number of guards there,

00:40and they were there for some time. Not so long ago, I went to another border road,

00:45and we still had checkpoints. Then we were told, well, we couldn't have checkpoints,

00:49that would be wrong. They're happening, and they're happening now on a daily basis.

00:55So the nonsense that we couldn't have some sort of checks on the border

00:59was totally and absolutely nonsense. In fact, it was lies at the end of the day around all of this.

01:05But we must find a solution to the problems, and these debates are very important to highlight

01:13the issues that need to be highlighted in this chamber, and keep these issues before this house

01:19continually until we get a resolution to the problem. And yes, we all have to work together

01:25to get a resolution and find a way forward in how we deal with these issues now and in the future.