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

Photo of Erin McGreehanErin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask one brief question. As former member of the east Border region, I am innately aware of the importance of the work done by ICBAN and the Northern and Western Regional Assembly. They advocate for economic development. More importantly, it is about the personal relationships that are built up across the Border. We all know that the Border region, from the west to the east, has been underdeveloped, underutilised and disadvantaged because of the jurisdictional Border.

I feel that the three Border organisations are very important. However, the common voice of a Border economic zone or a Border zone would be most valuable. Given that there are currently eastern and midland and northern and western regional assemblies, how would the witnesses feel about having the three Border organisations coming together on an assembly basis? How do they feel that would work?

All along the Border there are different issues and problems on each side, but innately, it is about the economic and social hinterlands being divided. How would the witnesses feel about a Border assembly?

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