Mr. Shane Campbell:

I will quickly provide a few responses. I thank Senator Blaney for his contribution. We very much welcome the opportunity to engage with all the political spokespersons in all the political parties across the island.

Over the summer and into the autumn, we really need to promote the opportunities outlined in the framework. The board has identified that having gone through some formalities in terms of getting our strategy out and early engagement with the two Governments, we now need to engage in more depth with the political parties. We have made a great start on that today. We would be delighted to follow it up. We would welcome further correspondence from the members, as Senator Currie has expressed, on the issue of double taxation. We would welcome more information on that, or issues to which we can refer in our work.

In response to the Chairman's question on demographics, the key challenge for our area is the ageing population, and how to service and provide that population with the supports it will need, while at the same time, retaining our young people as the future drivers of our economy. We believe that we have a whole-of-economy and society approach in the strategy which, if it could be implemented and were to be supported, would provide opportunities and advantages for different cohorts of our population. That is my final contribution.