Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Irish Central Border Area Network
Mr. Mickey Brady:
I thank our guests for their presentations. I commend ICBAN on the work it does. My question relates to cross-Border workers, an issue I have been dealing with for some time. A group, the Cross-Border Workers Coalition, now advocates for people who may be living on one side of the Border and working on the other, and facing problems with taxation and so on. Moreover, people who live in the North and work in the South missed out on Covid payments and that issue was not addressed. I understand ICBAN had some engagement with workers on 16 June, when it had a meeting with people who have experienced this problem. [Interruptions.] As has been said, there is a need to attract workers back to Ireland, but if the cross-Border rules are not changed, that may not be conducive to that.
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