Mr. Paul Mac Flynn:

As I said, our work has tended to focus more specifically on Northern Ireland-related issues for that economy and for issues in the southern economy and then comparing that analysis when appropriate to do so. However, we are quite clear that, whether it is work on productivity or on skills in Northern Ireland, where we have looked at the low skills equilibrium, whereas when we have looked at skills in the Republic of Ireland it is a question in many cases of overqualification, and we are doing work on that. Eventually, those two things will come together. We can talk about greater co-operation but the fact is that the all-island economy, as it currently stands, is not where it should be. It is not what was promised in the Good Friday Agreement. Therefore, to just continue on the path we are on now and hope that things will magically come to a better position is not the right approach. We have to look seriously at why that is not happening, why that natural synthesis is not taking place, and ask ourselves if it is because we are dealing with two very different situations, two different economies that have stayed very different for far too long, and that we need to make interventions in both separately. That does not exclude and in fact would help in bringing them towards something that looked more similar to each other.