{"id":408558,"date":"2025-09-08T19:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408558\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T19:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:48:25","slug":"stormont-deputy-first-minister-presses-government-over-windsor-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408558\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormont deputy First Minister presses Government over Windsor Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stormont\u2019s deputy First Minister has called on the Government<\/a> to act over the Windsor Framework\u2019s \u201cbureaucracy for bureaucracy sake\u201d.<\/p>\n

Emma Little-Pengelly said some companies will not supply to Northern Ireland<\/a> because they do not understand the rules put in place following the UK\u2019s exit from the European Union.<\/p>\n

The Windsor Framework, which was agreed in 2023, requires checks and customs paperwork on goods moving from Great Britain into Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Under the arrangements, which were designed to ensure no hardening of the Irish<\/a> land border post-Brexit, Northern Ireland continues to follow many EU trade and customs rules.<\/p>\n

The Assembly also debated a private members motion on Monday brought by three DUP<\/a> MLAs on moving beyond the Windsor Framework.<\/p>\n

Speaking during questions for the Executive Office, Ms Little-Pengelly said there is currently \u201cvery little regulatory divergence\u201d, but despite that she said there is \u201cunnecessary checking at the behest of the deal\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome companies don\u2019t supply Northern Ireland because they don\u2019t understand the system, some companies try to ask for various company numbers or looking for processes that are not needed,\u201d she told MLAs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get it all the time when people contact me, and it takes a bit of time, and you can navigate and you can get it resolved however, there are still requirements, there are certain certificates that are required by certain people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Little-Pengelly outlined a situation facing a man she called Roy from Mid-Ulster who was trying to bring a tractor from Scotland to Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was requiring four certificates. He couldn\u2019t give the haulage company a specific date as to when he was to get that, and therefore he missed that window and those tractors were stuck in Scotland for four to six weeks despite being paid in full, despite the fact that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is not acceptable. It is bureaucracy for bureaucracy sake. We need to tackle that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest frustration that people have about governments, should it be here, across the United Kingdom or across the globe, is the fact that it\u2019s so difficult to get things sorted because of this unnecessary, disproportionate, non-risk based nonsense that people are putting in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need to get rid of it. It doesn\u2019t serve any purpose. Get it sorted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-408558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115170410831202797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}