Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I apologise to the Minister. I missed his opening remarks as I was welcoming the new Member. I would probably go in the same direction as Deputy Tóibín. Perhaps it is a political issue. I get a sense, not just in enterprise, that the Government’s mindset stops at the Border. Perhaps I am building on Deputy Tóibín’s contribution in saying that while InterTradeIreland is very successful, its executives are frustrated, as are experts in the field, about the level of budget cuts being inflicted on the agency. Its ability to deliver on its mandate is being choked.

Before the Minister came to the meeting we heard examples from the transport area, which is not the Minister’s remit, but it is enterprise-related. The earliest train from Dublin to Belfast leaves at 7.30 a.m. The Wi-Fi is tricky on it and there are no charging points on the train because the carriages are so old.

Were it the Dublin to Cork route, there would be a hullabaloo about it. That does not speak of an all-island approach. The Government has dropped the ball on the Dublin-Derry road and on the Narrow Water bridge. The Wild Atlantic Way has been phenomenally successful and has been particularly successful in getting economies going such as those along the Border, that is, small rural economies, by giving them a chance to get a share of the tourism market. While we now have the latest version of that, the name of which I keep forgetting-----