Ms Julie Sinnamon:

On North-South co-operation, we have a very close working relationship with Invest Northern Ireland and InterTradeIreland in the context of our leadership programmes. Currently we have programmes with IMD in Switzerland and Stanford in which Northern Ireland companies have been participating for the past four or five years. We had our first joint trade mission earlier in the year to Singapore, with Northern Ireland, UK and Irish companies together. We have start-up companies in Cambridge with Northern Ireland. The North does not have the critical mass of companies that we have in different sectors for which we can run leadership programmes. There is extremely close collaboration. We meet with the team in Invest Northern Ireland and InterTradeIreland a number of times each year and there is much information and support for companies on both sides. Any of the programmes we have that are seen to be successful, they have copied. We share any information we have, as there is no reason not to do that.