Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (Resumed)

2:10 pm

Dr. Katy Hayward:

I would like to follow up on that. It is notable that the OECD report from 2013 said that trade flows and connections between the North and the South were falling significantly below their potential. That was in the post-Agreement context of a much more positive environment than the one we are facing now. When we talk about the cross-Border links that make sense as we face a post-Brexit context, I suggest we need to think about the British-Irish links in strand three as well as strand two.