Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body
Ms Gina McIntyre:
We are seeing challenges arising from groups in Northern Ireland that no longer can be part of, say, an association that they were normally connected with in the South on a European basis because they do not have that access anymore. We are seeing deregulation in areas and that is why we have included within the programme theme 6.1 which is removal on addressing the legal and administrative challenges of a border. That is where many of the challenges arising on Brexit can be mitigated. There is a huge level of interest in this area. It could be to do with recognition of qualifications, an all-island approach to certain issues, migration issues, air quality or whatever. We are seeing that people are finding ways to deal with the challenges of Brexit, particularly through theme 6.1.
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