James Nicholson (ECR). – Madam President, first of all I would like to say I welcomed very much Mr Barnier’s visit to the Republic of Ireland that last week and his very clear message on how difficult this process is going to be. Let us be under no illusions: solving the problem of the border, be it a hard border or a soft border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, is going to be massive. Be under no illusions about that, though I welcome the attempts and his clear spelling out of that problem. But I want to also make clear that politicians in Dublin or Brussels do not speak for the people of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland will speak for itself, and the people will decide for themselves. They are an integral part of the United Kingdom, and they will decide where their future will be – nobody else and none of this process will do so. While I make that very clear, I do so with a degree of sincerity, so that everyone understands where we stand. But I am extremely concerned at the way in which this process is going. I am very concerned that we now have megaphone diplomacy across the English Channel, instead of cool heads sitting down and realistically looking at how we are going to solve these problems in the future between us. We want good relations between the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe, and I sincerely hope that both sides can realise that as this process goes forward and work to achieve that.