Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Martin Robinson:

If I can add to that, we are continually monitoring the developments and putting the latest information and advice out to businesses through our cross-Border trade hub. We also support that through, for instance, a chatbot facility for people to interact. More importantly, however, in many ways, we back it up with strong telephone guidance and advice and, in particular, access to experts who will work one-to-one. We provide financial support to the businesses to get that expert advice for them to properly understand what those implications are and, importantly, begin to take action in terms of what the obligations would be. We would encourage the businesses out there and, indeed, our stakeholders to look to that cross-Border trade hub because we are endeavouring to ensure it is kept up to date and current in tracking the developments and impacts. To Mr. Molloy's point, through our survey, we will continue to ask those questions and we hope to be able to detect if there is any movement in terms of levels of uncertainty or impacts and to respond along with our key partners and stakeholders to try to smooth any difficulties that might arise or any restrictions or tensions that exist.

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