Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There would be an absolute intolerance to any impediment to the development of business. When we consider that businesses have had to come through a global pandemic and everything else on top of it, I cannot see that any business, North or South, would accept impediments being put in its way.

My next question is about the possibility of collaboration between the local enterprise offices, LEOs, the local authorities here and the local authorities in the North. I ask this specifically in the context of the presentation the committee had on the PEACEPLUS programme the week before last. For the first time, we have opportunities for all the local authorities to be involved in that. How can the LEOs, InterTradeIreland and other organisations work together, both on research and development and also, as Mr. Robinson rightly referenced, on developing the export market? We often find that businesses here start to trade in the North, and vice versa, before scaling up for global export.