Ms Katie Daughen:

To build on what Mr. O'Neill said, the education committee has actually published a paper, which looks at future collaboration between the UK and Ireland and many of those who were mentioned this morning sit on that committee also. In the paper, we state we would like to see the UK retain access to some of those programmes such as Horizon 2020, but we are very explicit that in those terms it would have to be done under certain conditions, so it might be that they have to maintain the freedom of movement for academics or that there would be a fee associated with that. From our dealings with UK universities, we think that is something that is very positive and is something that they would want to see and have been vocal about. Horizon 2020 has shown the absolute best of what can happen with collaboration across the European Union. It will be a loss to the next programme to replace it, if the UK universities are lost from that programme, given that they are the leading universities in the world.