Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I spent the start of this week campaigning in the North with our candidate, Elisha McCallion, in advance of the elections. We visited a number of businesses and could clearly see that major contracts had been lost. Other businesses had to secure premises on the other side of the Border at considerable expense in the event of a no-deal scenario. The lack of consumer confidence in smaller businesses meant they were not willing to take a risk because they did not know what the product would look like when it was delivered to them in a number of months. There has already been a genuine impact.