Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

Funding is a big part of it and cross-Border funding. Mr. McKenna talked about PEACEPLUS and we talked about the shared island investment fund. I suggest incentivisation to work in partnership with the North. We all have a million things to do daily and weekly, but an actual incentive to build those networks could be considered.

We are already seeing the fruits of that labour. There are now joint apprenticeship programmes North and South. Northern Ireland colleges are delivering craft apprenticeship training for us to address the backlogs. Once the networks are built, it is then just about making sure there is investment behind them to make things happen.