Mr. Máirtín Ó Muilleoir:

Prime Minster May should live up to the flowery biblical rhetoric she made on her appointment and what she pledged when she came to the North. She said she would ensure that the Executive was involved in negotiations and in the preparations for negotiations. They then immediately issued their decision on EU funding, that they would only underwrite funding up to 23 November, leaving €1.1 billion in peril. I do not use the word "alarm", but I am always concerned that the British Government would say one thing and then another. At this stage, we have not received any of the type of guarantees we need concerning the agrifood industry to ensure there is not a hard Border and to ensure that ethnic minorities can continue to live, work and travel in the North. We have not received any of the commitments and pledges we need. It is a fraught time for anyone in the agrifood sector, with a business on the Border, or who has been pummelled by the drop in the value of sterling. The sooner we have a fair and true engagement with the British Government the better, but to do so they need to get themselves sorted first. We have our arguments well marshalled already.