The Taoiseach said the conditions for a border poll have not been met.
Sinn Féin’s call for a border poll is not “helpful at this time”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.Washington PostIt urges the US Government to hold the British Government “fully accountable to its Good Friday Agreement commitments” and for the Irish Government to hold a Citizens’ Assembly on the issue.An Taoiseach said he had not seen the advertisements but opposed a border poll in the near future.“I’m someone who believes in unification but I don’t think that’s helpful at this time.
“What’s most important in the here and now is getting everyone onboard for the Windsor Framework and getting the Executive up and running,” he said. “Because what the people of Northern Ireland want more than anything, is to have the politicians they elected dealing with the everyday problems that they face.”
Power sharing collapsed last year because the DUP were unhappy with the Northern Ireland Protocol; the party is currently analysing the Windsor Framework and will nominate a Deputy First Minister if satisfied.
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