Mr. Declan Fearon:

The important issue and the No. 1 issue is that the island of Ireland should be treated as one economic entity. That is the point from which we all must start. The reason we are highlighting the point of how difficult any other solution would be is to make people realise that this is the only solution. It is the starting point at which we all must arrive. As I said, I listened to Vince Cable on the radio yesterday morning, and he was more or less saying verbatim some of what we have been saying here and giving the reasoning behind it. We must get to the point at which people agree that this is the only solution. Any other attempt to create a hard Border, with all the consequences we have outlined, would be disastrous. Getting the European Union decision-makers to sit up and understand this is the first step.