Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief to allow my colleague get to the next question. It is important to note what must be done at national level to achieve EU policy changes on cohesion funding and Objective One status to address the issues I referred to earlier. Our agencies and Departments must work in close collaboration with their counterparts in Northern Ireland. The North-South economy is joined up locally.

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