Dr. Adele Bergin:

I will add to that briefly. One thing we have seen since Brexit is an increase in the cross-Border goods trade, North and South, which we can see from work done by a colleague of ours, Martina Lawless. This is put down to the unique status of Northern Ireland in having full access on the goods side of the UK and the wider EU. The important point to make here is that it does not apply to services trade and is only on the goods side. This is often forgotten in the debate.

Services make up a growing but small enough amount of the trade going over the Border but there remains the potential for the services trade to be negatively impacted, especially if there is any divergence with the UK with regard to services regulations over the longer term. That is something else to bear in mind.