Issues | Leo Varadkar | Simon Coveney |
United Ireland | Believes in preparing for Shared Sovereignty or a United Ireland.
However says it needs support in both communities.
Opposes Border Poll now |
Wants a White Paper on Irish unity drafted by November 2017.
Supports establishment of an All Ireland Forum in 2018.
Opposes Border Poll now. |
North-South relations | Supports good relations and commits to help restoring the Executive. | Wants joint Dail Committee to examine possibilities for North-South relations. |
Brexit | Wants NI to remain in the Single Market.
Wants NI to stay in the Common Agricultural Policy, Interreg, Erasmus and other programmes.
Wants Free Trade Agreement between UK and EU. |
Opposes a Hard Border.
Wants All Ireland Forum with reps from UK, EU, Ireland and NI to look at issues arising from Brexit. |
Contesting Elections in NI | Opposes contesting elections at the moment. | Believes party should contest elections at some point in the future. |
Other issues | Backs an Irish Language Act in the North | Commits to speaking with Unionist groups as Taoiseach.
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David McCann holds a PhD in North-South relations from University of Ulster. You can follow him on twitter @dmcbfs