Dr. John Bradley:

It is an interesting point, and we deal with it in our report. The cross-Border agency is not a cross-Border body like the six of which InterTradeIreland is one. When we approached this in our study, because we have a chapter on tourism, we thought this was great and that there was integrated tourism planning on the island but we found they are two separate strategies. We managed to create some type of extraordinary agency that has a Belfast focus centre and a Dublin focus centre, but there is no genuine strategic co-operation between the two. Other people will claim that there is, but when one talks to people on the ground there is not. That is extraordinary. If one cannot solve the tourism challenge on an all-island basis, what hope does one have of solving the enterprise development problems? I worry about this country sometimes and the ability of policy-makers North and South to genuinely co-operate.