Professor Edgar Morgenroth:

I published some work along with others not so long ago in which we looked at attracting foreign direct investment and start-ups within the Republic of Ireland outside of Dublin and the factors that drive that. We found that education, having a highly skilled workforce, was ten times more important that the most important infrastructure one could invest in, which is broadband. Even broadband was three or four times more important than roads. There is a hierarchy and at the top of that is human capital. One cannot make a mistake by investing in people. That seems to be a no regrets policy, nothing to do with a united Ireland or otherwise. That is something that will be good for Northern Ireland regardless.