Ms Alison Grundle:

Professor Shirlow talked about the new economy that has developed in the North. I hope we will have mitigations related to the protocol that will enable it to work. We are in a position with the protocol where we have a unique opportunity to trade both within and outside the EU. There are enormous benefits from that for this whole island. Unification would put us straight back into the EU without having the opportunity to see what those benefits might be. I will leave it there because I am conscious that we are very much over our time. I thank the committee.