Ms Susan McKay:

The Deputy has obviously travelled around the Border area and knows it well. It is noticeable that much of the money that has been spent in the area is EU money. There has been a centralisation in Belfast and Dublin in terms of other investment. There has been EU PEACE money and American money in particular invested in the Border area. In the absence of that on the Northern side of the Border, both Governments are going to have to be mindful of the vacuum that will be created.