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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Young

Committee scrutiny of officials on port checks postponed pending legal challenge

PA Wire

A plan for MLAs to question senior officials on a controversial order to halt Brexit port checks has been put on hold pending a legal challenge.

The Assembly’s agriculture committee last week sought urgent briefings from two senior Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) officials following the unilateral instruction from DUP minister Edwin Poots to stop agri-food checks on goods arriving from Great Britain.

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