Mr. Gerard Brady:

The major one is infrastructure. If we compare Ireland with similar countries, we stand up pretty well. Companies look at this very closely and still invest here. On skills, the availability of talent and so on, we still stand up. The issues raised with us most regularly are all to do with infrastructure. These are housing and the ability of a company, when it does find staff, to get them to stay in the country or move within the country, which is becoming more of a problem, as well as the electricity grid and water infrastructure. We have lots of challenges in trying to win investment into the country if the grid or the water infrastructure is not there. Planning and the EPA licensing regime are also issues.