Patrick D. Harte
Ceist:146 Mr. Harte asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the construction of enormous and over elaborate security compounds along the Border by the British security forces which are being seen by cross-Border travellers as a very unfriendly act against the Irish Government and as a vote of no confidence in Border security arrangements and rejection of the general internal security policy of the Irish Government; if the British Government are entitled to construct such elaborate compounds and close the Border under the 1920 Act; if the unfriendly action of the British Government in doing these things without consultation with the Irish Government is in keeping with the spirit of co-operation and good neighbourliness as agreed and envisaged in the Anglo-Irish Agreement; if such action on the part of Westminster is in keeping with the Treaty of European Union as signed at Maastricht on 7 February 1992, and if he will make a statement on the matter.