Mr. Michael D'Arcy:

As the Deputy will know, status is extraordinarily difficult because Northern Ireland tends to be under the UK's standard national status. That is one of the reasons we hope that the macroeconomic modelling will give us a base to start in terms of Northern Ireland people being able to mobilise their data around their more local factors that are more compatible to ours in many instances rather than the rest of the UK.

Second, to pick up on an earlier point, we have not mentioned the national development plan and the national planning framework and their all-island dimension. The Government can play a huge role in that, particularly if they think about sitting it in the next 25 years of the agreement.

Third, dare we push the Atlantic corridor to where the Atlantic goes? Let us imagine an area that stretches from Coleraine to north of the Burren and west of the Shannon as one contiguous area. I like to stir people up and such an idea would stir up people's thinking. Again, if Government planning, organisation and provision of services began to think about, in 25 years, how would we mobilise ourselves around that?