Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It was both. There are real opportunities. I hope, as chair of the economics committee of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, to present a positive view of opportunities. They are real and can be presented. We are gathering the evidence to present that. The impact it has had on the Republic, if we take my constituency and companies such as Danone, has been such that it does pose a difficulty. For someone exporting food products into GB, there is a fundamental difficulty in terms of certification. There are a range of difficulties we would rather were not there but we need to make the best of it and we can present something positive. I hope the Lords subcommittee, this committee and the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly will take it upon themselves to present this in a positive way.