Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will try to be as brief as possible. I thank the witness for presenting to the committee. There is not much of a silver lining when we are coming at Brexit and the tables in the presentation are quite clear in that respect. I was trying to see a positive indicator in any of the data but they are all negative or neutral. Is it the view of the ESRI that a deal scenario is the most likely outcome, which would mean there would be an orderly Brexit with a free trade agreement following the end of the transition period? Is that the best position from which the Government should forecast its budgets?