Mr. Derek Moran:

We are all involved in Brexit in different ways across the whole policy piece. The dedicated resources are around having a unit that brings all of that together. For example, issues of taxation and customs and financial services will be the bread and butter of what people are doing at an EU level. We are represented on the Economic and Financial Committee, which is the committee that prepares the agenda for ECOFIN. A huge amount of information flows from that committee.

In regard to the dedicated unit within the Department, its function is to draw together all strands of the work on Brexit. In other words, it will have a co-ordinating function. The target is to have five or six people dealing with that work.