Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (Resumed)
2:10 pm
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I have a final question. The Border, to a certain extent, is a man-made periphery. Typically, peripheries do not do well. That periphery will deepen with a hard Border. Has anyone made any efforts to research or estimate how a hard Border will affect the socioeconomic experience of the people living in this space? I know they probably figure at the bottom of most socioeconomic indicators at present. Is it possible to estimate the exact impact? I assume it is not possible if we are still in the area of conjecture.
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