Dr. Anthony Soares:

In terms of farmers voting to leave or people voting against what is in their best interests, the majority of voters in Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to remain in the Union, but a substantial number of people in Northern Ireland voted to leave, and we and the European Union must listen to the reasons they had for doing so. There are significant issues in that decision in that the population has benefitted from the European Union yet a substantial number of the people voted to leave the Union. The European Union has to find out why that happened. I agree we need to be creative.

On the importance of implementing the Good Friday Agreement and how Brexit might damage it and what can we do to implement the Agreement, it was suggested that a UK Minister could be invited to appear before this committee.