Ms Ruth Taillon:

To move away from the arts, well before Brexit was even spoken about or thought about we were involved with elected representatives on both sides of the Border in the Border development corridor.

The rationale for that was that counties in the Border region have more in common with other counties on both sides of the Border than with the rest of the island, the rest of the UK or the rest of Europe. That was why the idea of cohesion policy, which is to bring more deprived regions up to the average, has been so important in the framing of what we try to do. It takes it a bit out of the hardcore political area and talks about social and economic advances and what needs to be done. With the Border corridor idea, we were saying that both sides of the corridor needed to skew policies and funding to allow the Border region to catch up. Certainly, with Brexit, there is a huge danger from all the things that make the Border a barrier in the first place, and the problems that has created over time with regard to people turning away from the Border. Centralisation in Belfast and Dublin is going to be exacerbated. We need a massive injection of some sort of replacement funding and we have made a number of proposals not only for the Border region, but also for us to build relationships on the island.

Going back to what I was saying about demographic changes, one of the big threats to the peace process will be scapegoating of people who are a bit different. We have seen that in places like Dungannon, where there are different ethnic populations and a different societal composition. That needs to be addressed and there needs to be a new "peace vibe" or whatever else it is called. Whether it has EU money or not, it needs to be directed to those issues around the danger to community relations that will come out as a result of Brexit.