Mr. Aidan Gough:

We almost always form a committee, including representatives of our sponsor Departments, to oversee our research. This means that our research feeds immediately into the policy frameworks. I presume the Departments in Northern Ireland have links with what is going on in London. We think our research has been influential and has raised issues. The work we did on non-tariff barriers and on the impact of the imposition of WTO rules provided the first hard evidence of the potential impact of a hard Brexit scenario and fed into the work of policymakers.

We envisage an increase in demand from companies. We do not know what the new relationship will be. It is likely that there will be some changes, at least, in the trading relationship. We do not know what those changes will be. It may be the case that we have to give reassurance. I hope that will be the case. We are planning for an increase in demand. We have increased next year's budget for our Brexit advisory service accordingly.

I would say that the biggest impact being felt by the agrifood industry in Northern Ireland so far has related to accessing skills and labour. There has been a reduction in the willingness of European migrant labour to take up positions in this industry in Northern Ireland. That has been by far the biggest impact to date. I am not sure what the Deputy means when she refers to "high-level visitors."