Mr. John McGrane:

I say "Yes" to all of those points. They are all cogent to the topic. There is no question about that. I will bring in my colleague, Mr. Molloy, in a moment to speak about the manner in which we engage very actively week on week with our like-minded organisations in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland businesses and communities are blessed with some excellent representative bodies and we are working closer than ever with them now.

I go back to a time when I worked in an organisation where the chairman was George Quigley. He has passed, but he was the original author of the concept of a North-South economic corridor, specifically a Dublin-Belfast economic corridor. That is more than 30 years ago, perhaps almost 40 years ago, but the concept is as valid today as it has ever been. It is a frequently relaunched concept, but there is nothing wrong with that. We should relaunch it until it is done. We have been working very closely with our good friends in Dublin City University, the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry and others in the promotion of the concept and giving substance to it in terms of saying it is real, as people invest in it and as they open factories on it, and as they expand a job and a service company. In our work with Britain-based businesses to encourage them to invest on this island, we equally bring in people involved in organisations such as the Newry Chamber of Commerce & Trade, Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Belfast Chamber, Manufacturing Northern Ireland, and the Fermanagh & Omagh District Council.

We are completely agnostic on where the jobs could be made to happen on this island and across these islands. They will most likely be made by people from some part of these two islands, whereas foreign direct investment may come and go because of taxation and other changes such as working from home.

It is the people from this broad patch of earth that will promote the well-being of this broad patch of earth, and that North-South, Dublin-Belfast corridor has every potential if we can just get some investment into it in the weeks and months ahead. I ask Mr. Molloy to address Senator Ó Donnghaile's comments regarding how we work with Northern Ireland organisations.