Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We all welcome the Narrow Water bridge project. We need to ensure it is built on time and on budget. I know Antóin Watters and Fiona Mhic Conchoille would also be very supportive of that. We have to prepare in every way to lessen the impact of the Border. We have to prepare for the eventual stage of there being no Border, which would deal with an awful lot of issues. I was at an event with Dundalk Chamber of Commerce earlier. It was a breakfast briefing session on tax implications for cross-Border workers and employers. Rose Tierney, the tax consultant, spoke at it. It covered issues related to remote working, which is not entirely possible for cross-Border workers unless their employers are willing to operate a dual system, setting themselves up in this jurisdiction for tax purposes, which is not always possible. There are very significant issues in respect of social insurance, benefits, pension lump sums, redundancy payments and many other issues. Now that we have the Northern Executive up and running, there should be Government engagement with the latter, particularly with the Minister for Finance, Caoimhe Archibald, and Minister for the Economy, Conor Murphy. After the election in Britain, more engagement on some sort of bilateral agreement to deal with these particular issues may be possible. They are absolutely vital, particularly for those who live in the Border area.

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