Mr. Neil McDonnell:

Yes, they do, on a local basis, but that is the issue. There is nobody in charge on a strategic level of assisting small businesses. Some of the best material on this, from a small and medium enterprise, SME, perspective, comes from our own stock exchange, where the current chief executive says that tax policy and industrial policy in this State encourages SMEs or the owners of SMEs to sale, not scale. We need to scale if people are serious about increasing the levels of domestic employment in secure domestic businesses. Other countries are much better at scale than we are. We are getting that wrong.

The free movement question the Chairman asked my colleagues relates to one of the four freedoms. I have to make a clear distinction between that and whatever might happen for free movement of goods and services. It is a logical conclusion that, unless the UK Border Force moves into the Border counties and unless our immigration service takes up positions opposite it, the only logical way to maintain freedom of movement on the island is for border control to move to the points of embarkation in Great Britain. That was the precedent established during the war, as I am sure everyone in here knows. I appreciate that there are political considerations on that north of the Border, but I do not see why that would be the case again in the new dispensation.