Mr. Ken Nelson:

I will give a brief response before I invite Ms Curran to comment. I accept Mr. Roche's points and I would not like to say too much on the infrastructure side but the more that can be done on the process side the better.

The CSO statistics just out for January 2021 show that trade between Ireland and Great Britain has reduced by 65% compared with the same period last year. At the same time, exports to Northern Ireland are up 17% and imports from Northern Ireland are up 10%. We are certainly seeing big issues on the east-west side but we are seeing the strengthening of the cross-Border supply chain networks. Factoring that into the decisions on the infrastructure needs to be taken on board.