Mr. Colin McGrath:

I can make sure it is shining brightly on these issues. If it helps people and delivers services for people on the island, then I will absolutely do so. Senator Ó Donnghaile is correct that Covid has provided an opportunity. Even taking this meeting as an example, rather than involving significant organisation and time commitment with people having to travel for several hours to spend an hour or 90 minutes at an in-person meeting, it can now be held online, as has become second nature as a result of Covid. It does provide that opportunity.

I wish to provide a small health warning and challenge to the committee. I am conscious that no unionist representatives are taking part in this meeting. I appreciate that two such representatives frequently attend meetings of the committee. I know that one of them is not too well. I am not sure where the Deputy Chairperson of the Committee for the Executive Office is. I will take their absence as a challenge, rather than anything else, to see if we can get them to engage. If we are able to highlight a work plan in terms of what our committees, coming together, could do, that would be of benefit to everybody.

We need to highlight the importance of unfettered access east and west as well as the fact that we do not wish to remove or reduce anybody's culture or identity through any part of this process. Rather, we just want to get the practicalities sorted out so that life after Brexit is equal to life before Brexit and citizens do not notice any impact of it on their daily lives. I will certainly take that on the challenge of trying to engage our unionist friends and colleagues to be part of these conversations going forward.