Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

With regard to the EEA+ issue, has any economic analysis been done with respect to practicalities and current legal challenges? Is it possible that the economic analysis could be "gamed out" and Belfast wins, with the financial houses of London not having to go to Frankfurt and Paris but instead setting up a brass plate company in Belfast before being good to go? We have been asked to put forward realistic solutions that are doable. I support the idea of an EEA+ in terms of what it would solve for agriculture, cross-Border issues, an all-island energy economy and all of that kind of stuff. It comes back to the idea that the EU is saying, quite clearly, that Brexit is not going to be a success. If it was a success, everybody would do it. They are hardly going to encourage Brexit to be a success.