Mr. John Phelan:

In the context of cross-Border initiatives, the Halo Business Angel Network is co-funded by EI and InterTradeIreland. We, therefore, have partners in the Northern Ireland Science Park in Belfast and we liaise with them quite a lot.

With regard to the Dublin BIC, we do many European projects. We have a couple of FP7 and Horizon 2020 projects. We had two last year, which were all about cross-Border investments and how to get investment into our companies from Europeans while having our investors look at European projects in order that they can have visibility of the quality of what the technology companies are doing.

I chair a strategic interest group in Europe for the European Business Network, EBN. Last week, we had a policy meeting in the Commission. Approximately 150 people were present along with many of the Commission policy makers. That was again about how we engage in cross-Border investment.