Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
East Border Region
Mr. Arnold Hatch:
In Northern Ireland and the UK we have city and growth deals going on. Most of the councils in Northern Ireland are in some sort of a city deal, such as Belfast which includes Newry, Mourne and Down, while the consortium in the north west of Derry, Strabane and Fermanagh and Omagh, then Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Council etc., are involved in discussing a growth deal. Is there something similar for the regional assemblies or the Dáil that might buy into that concept of a structure along the Border which could focus on those Border counties?
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