Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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Nobody else seems to be indicating to speak. I wish to put on the record my thanks to InterTradeIreland and the witnesses from the Department for attending. I sat in this room six years ago, when we were really worried about Brexit. I think we were the first committee to do a report on Brexit. We called for special status for the North, which is basically the protocol we have now. That has protected the island economy as best we can. Nobody would have sat here two or two and a half years ago and thought that Brexit would not be the biggest issue we would be dealing with. We have since had the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine. We have done particularly well to protect our economy, so I congratulate both organisations, the Department and InterTradeIreland. I visited InterTradeIreland's outfit in Newry a couple of years ago, and a very impressive outfit it was. I thank InterTradeIreland for its help and its presentation to the committee.

That concludes our consideration of this matter and concludes the committee's business in public session. I propose that the committee goes into private session to consider other business. Is that agreed? Agreed.