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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is good to have the ESRI here today to discuss this as part of our constitutional future work that we are doing. We have divided it up into different themes and this is our economic section. Last week, we considered pensions and welfare and how that might look as well. I will focus my contributions on the opportunities for the future but it is important to acknowledge all the work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I completely understand that. There is agreement across the board on our need to prepare and it is only how we prepare and how we develop the different questions and the answers to the questions that people have in their minds. Maybe I could ask Dr. Barrett to have a think about that. For us as a committee, what areas should we ask Government to consider? As the ESRI was doing its research...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. I completely get that. That would speak to the fact that there would be a positive impact on economic growth following a transition period if the policies are gotten right, and we can start doing that from now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What do the witnesses think are the most likely opportunities for economic growth in the event of reunification or a transition period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: But we can look as to where expats are, whether we pay pensions and British people living in Spain, British people living in the South and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I agree in a sense because then there are opportunities presented by Atlantic Technological University and that reach up to the Magee campus and all that. We are waiting for the all-island rail review as well. Again, that presents opportunities for connectivity and transport across the island as well. I very much hear what Dr. Barrett says. The ESRI states in one of the papers - it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I never heard anybody mention assets before. That is why it caught my eye.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As regards education, Mr. McGuinness identifies: [L]arge gaps in educational attainment, and their implications for productivity, ... have been a major concern and should form a key part of any border poll discourse given that reforms to the education system aimed at improving NI productivity are likely to take time to design and implement. Has the ESRI identified any all-island...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. I am watching the clock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the ESRI identified any all-island opportunities around all that, how as an island we can work together to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Economies of scope as well. However, for example, there is no veterinary college in the North and we are now looking at opening another veterinary college here. What is important is that we have the accreditation for both sides of the Border. We cannot have a situation where we are designing courses that only fulfil the needs of half or part of the island. That also needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I just want to make a short point in the remaining minute and a half.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are trying to assist the ESRI in what it is doing. In the submissions we made to the Central Statistics Office, CSO, on having congruence with the data North and South, we encouraged it through the Joint Committee on Finance and the Committee on Budgetary Oversight to talk to its counterpart in the North and have a formal arrangement there that will provide more data to assist the ESRI...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I will come back to the region in transition, the EU and the impact that would have in the event of reunification. The FDI paper by the ESRI states: Our estimates indicate that moving to a corporate tax rate of 15% – in line with ... OECD-led global reform ... would increase the expected number of high-value FDI going to Northern Ireland by 7.5% ... with a corresponding decrease of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there any change at all because of the 15% OECD rate? Is that going to impact on the North, as is, in any way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Go on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am talking specifically about the North. There would be a good case there in terms of where it would be. It would be a region in transition in the interim.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is it possible to simulate the situation around the changes in the variables that are driving productivity and growth? How might that be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why are the causal relationships not there?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (11 May 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 42. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the electronic health record IT project, providing details on the potential risks to the health capital expenditure over the medium term, and the impact of contractual disputes in connection with the National Children's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22178/23]