Ms Michelle Gildernew:

Everyone is very welcome. Their contribution today has been very insightful and I am delighted to see them all in Dublin for this.

Ms Arthurs put it that if businesses know, they can plan. I have been saying that for the past two years. There is now more meat on the bones of what will most likely happen post Brexit. Businesses are finding that it is impossible to implement a plan.

This week Seamus Leheny from the Freight Transport Association tweeted that he had been contacted by a company that had applied for 37 licences and been given two. The agrifood industry is deeply integrated and the supply chain is across the island.

One of the businesses in the ICBAN region, which is part of my constituency, has primary processing on one side of the Border and secondary processing on the other, and it has been told it cannot import or export. There are all kinds of queries. What is being heard in the east Border region about the difficulties businesses are being forced to contemplate and how would the witnesses expect them to be addressed?