Ms Michelle Gildernew:

It is great to see Ms O'Donoghue and Mr. Duffy. Rathlin is beautiful any time of year, as is Fermanagh and South Tyrone, so do not be put off by coming up in the wintertime. Ms O'Donoghue will have seen since Brexit happened a huge increase in the amount of North-South trade done on the island of Ireland. North-South infrastructure has been touched on. The A5 is an issue but there are other issues. I would love to see better rail and road linkages for Enniskillen and onto Sligo for example, connecting with Belfast and Dublin. North-South infrastructure, both road and rail, will be very important in the future.

Ms O'Donoghue and I have spoken before and I appreciated her coming and doing a meeting with Fermanagh and Omagh District Council. Most of the stuff talked about on education today has been on higher and further education, but we had a conversation before about post-primary education and the opportunities for children to cross the Border to get that. St. Mary's in Brollagh, west Fermanagh, has closed recently and the children have to make a horrendous journey by bus to Enniskillen. They are leaving in the dark every morning and coming home in the dark. It is unfair to drag them to Enniskillen when there is a perfectly good school in Ballyshannon and one in Bundoran that they could potentially tap into. Has any more work been done on that? Is there any possibility of research or an investigation into how those children could be better served in those Border communities? Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe.