Mr. Eoin Doyle:

We are hearing directly from tourism providers that business from the North is dropping off and that stays in accommodation in the area are for shorter periods, with people staying for a night or two rather than three or four nights. In general, there is uncertainty about people's investment in tourism and this is permeating into areas like agri-food and microenterprises, where people would have been exporting to Britain. They are finding their lines of credit are being questioned and their own long-term plans are becoming very much short-term plans because they are not thinking long term. The uncertainty is in itself a difficulty. If we have to wait for economic indicators, the difficulty is that they lag a year or 18 months behind reality.