Dr. Alan Barrett:

On economic benefits, our discussion today has very much not been about the constitutionality but about improving the economy of Northern Ireland and outcomes there. If we look at the South, we have an economy that is doing very well at the moment. Of course, there are pockets which are not doing as well. We want to be bringing people up to higher levels but for me it is very much around the difficulties in Northern Ireland and bringing that group up higher. Is the entire constitutional discussion about some extraordinary economic leap forward? Looking at Irish output, productivity levels and all of that, we are not going to be able to jump way ahead of everybody else in the world or anything like that. I would not overstate the potential economic benefits of an all-island situation but there are very good reasons one would want it to happen, other than that it would deliver significant economic growth. I would compartmentalise there. Again, we are not talking from ESRI positions here and colleagues are open to-----