Dr. Peter Rigney:

I disagree about the people, but housing and infrastructure are big problems. Committee members should bear in mind that we operate in Northern Ireland as well. There will be companies that will move to the South, and some already have. Some Irish companies will move operations to the North or to Britain. Other companies will close. Let us consider the mushroom industry. It was decimated almost the week after Brexit because of the adverse effect of sterling changes. There are big issues at play.

Let us consider it from a regional point of view. One of the things we should be doing as a counterweight to Brexit is to sell twin towns with a cross-border element. Examples include Newry and Dundalk as well as Letterkenny and Derry. We should say to people that they could have a base in the EU here and, only a bicycle ride up the road, they could have a base in the UK as well. That may be a useful way of doing it.