Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Dixon for her presentation and I apologise for missing the first part. I want to reiterate the question I put to Mr. Carroll this morning and expand on it slightly. I appreciate this is hypothetical, and nobody likes dealing in hypotheticals, but we are where we are in this regard. It is on what the impact of Brexit might be, given our unique circumstances. The British Government is committing to the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, and retaining existing EU legislation, directives and regulations. If it was to divert from this at a later stage, or amend or distort it down the line, is exploratory work being done on how this would impact the retention and sharing of data of EU citizens in a jurisdiction which is no longer in the EU? A large number of people in the North are EU citizens, and will remain so regardless of the outworking of Brexit.

Another issue came to me as we have been sitting here, because people are following the meeting on social media and I have received a few tweets. Small and medium businesses retain data as part of their work, and there is a huge degree of uncertainty on both sides of the Border about insurance and how the change in legislation will impact on them in this regard. I caveat all of this with the appreciation that it is a hypothetical situation, but I want to pick Ms Dixon's brain and get her initial views.