Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think there is always room for additional initiative in this area. What we are doing ourselves is trying to evolve our regional policy with a number of new tools we have put out into the field. This is an experimental period and I am definitely interested in seeing if they can evolve and if we can get involvement collaboratively across the Border. That would be very good for those initiatives and would add to them. I am open to new ideas but institutional development is very much high politics, whereas what we are trying to do is to get practical collaboration at an economic level to build the connections to exploit the potential that clearly exists, build our export base, get people thinking in terms of trading and using that as an opportunity to build employment North and South. That is what we are trying to do in practical ways.