Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion

2:25 pm

Mr. John Kelpie:

The opinion is broadly in line with that of Louth County Council, which is that the free movement of people and unimpeded access across the Border, as currently exist, are the prize at the end of this. That, at least, maintains thestatus quo. Again, our opinion, given our very peripheral part of the country, is that others measures are needed in addition. The measures that were urgent prior to Brexit are more urgent during the Brexit process and will be so thereafter. That, of course, has now become one of the red risks in the risk register in terms of driving forward the economic prosperity project of the north west of the island.

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