it's thomas byrne, who is the irish europe minister. hello, thomas byrne.cretary, had her virtual conversation with maros sefcovic from the european commission today. where do you think things have got to? what is your assessment? well, it's very hard to know. we have heard this on a numberl of occasions from the british side that the protocol was going to be i amended, article 16 was going to be invoked, there were going to be - changes taking place, and we've been been consistent from the start that |this is an international agreementl that needs both sides to work- together and it is simply not open to any one side to change - the agreement, but it is open when the two sides are sitting down together and to - see what flexibilities _ are available within the protocol. could those flexibilities include the idea that the uk is pushing now of a green lane and a red lane, and goods that are going to stay in northern ireland go in the green lane when they move over from gb and goods going into the rest of the eu potentially go in a red lane? is that the flexi