Mr. Aidan Gough:

InterTradeIreland never received any veto to say specifically that it was not to go before any committee. What is happening and what we are led to understand is that the whole system in the North is adjusting to the fact that there is now a designated opposition in the Assembly for the first time. All our papers that go in front of committees have to be approved by our own Minister in the North. If we want to send a paper to any Assembly committee, it must be approved by him. That paper was not approved by the time the committee was meeting and, as such, we could not appear before it. Subsequently, we wrote a detailed response to a letter from the chair of the committee on Brexit, which has been approved and gone to the committee.