Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

From what I have heard today it strikes me that the witnesses are the meat in the sandwich and that sandwich is made up of three parts over which they have no control, namely, Brussels, London and Dublin. Belfast clearly has very little say on what is going on. I have heard and understand the witnesses' frustration. It strikes me that nobody is going to blink until everybody blinks and we are 43 days away from Brexit.

Going back to Senator Black's point on mental health, if I was a businessman in the North I would be screaming to the high heavens today. They told us that on 20 December when we visited Belfast. They wanted politicians to just tell them. Hard, soft, they did not care. We need to push for that.