Ms Kerry Curran:

We were talking about the low value of trips. This piece of work was originally undertaken by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, NISRA, and was only very recently released. It looked at the average value of trips from North to South and concluded that the average value was £4,500 which roughly equates to €5,700. In this basic research, NISRA has taken the low value to be beneath that £4,500 average. The Senator also mentioned supply chains-----