
So says a Sinn Féin TD here in the midlands.
The DUP is living in "fantasy land" if it thinks the Northern Ireland Protocol can just be torn up - according to a midlands TD.
The unionist party has yet to confirm if it will form part of a new Stormont executive after Sinn Féin's electoral success at the weekend, citing unresolved issues with the Brexit agreement.
Sinn Féin's Laois-Offaly TD, Brian Stanley, noted that the Protocol wasn't raised by any voters during his time canvassing in the North over a weekend last month.
Deputy Stanley feels the DUP only have themselves to blame: