Medicines need to be removed from the Norther Ireland Protocol immediately, says UUP

Responding to the news that Health Minister Robin Swann has warned of the threat to the supply of medicines to Northern Ireland because of the Protocol, Ulster Unionist Party Leader, Doug Beattie MC MLA, said:

“The warning from Robin Swann should be a wake-up call for both the EU and UK Government. The issue of the provision of medicines affects every man, woman and child in Northern Ireland. There is no immediate shortage of medicines, but if action isn't taken now that is exactly what we could be facing come the new year. This isn't scaremongering - it is the practical out-workings of the NI Protocol and there is a practical solution.

“The UK Government now needs to follow through on its proposal in the Command Paper it published in July and ‘remove all medicines from the scope of the Protocol entirely.’

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