Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the delegation and thank it for the information we have received and the presentation today.

Based on what the witnesses said, we are looking at opportunities and it is a breath of fresh air to hear an inkling of positivity in this. They highlighted potential opportunities based mainly on companies now based in London moving over here. How much extra business may be available for indigenous businesses and practices here and how prepared are we to harvest whatever potential may show itself there? While we have the witnesses here today, I have another question which I hope I word correctly - I am no legal eagle - about the legal rights of the citizens of Northern Ireland after a hard Brexit, which I am finding it hard to get my head around. They are all entitled to an Irish passport on the back of the Good Friday Agreement. In theory, they will all get Irish passports so in theory they are also members of the EU. When it comes to legal issues, does the company law or whatever that they are tied to follow the individual or the locality? What rights do they have under a new British justice system as citizens of the EU under the European Court of Justice, ECJ? It is something that I have been trying to work my head around. On the final day, when people say that Brexit has happened and to get on with it, is there the potential for a large number of cases, specifically in the North of Ireland? I may not be explaining myself very well, but the rights of the people of Northern Ireland under the two different jurisdictions once this is over and done with have been preoccupying me.