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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, it needs to say that we are working together and we can give people the opportunity to invest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will extend the meeting by five minutes. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I would like to bring in Mr. Hetherington as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will extend this discussion to 20 minutes for everybody so we can have a proper debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I have a few questions also. I am still a member, I hope. Some people think I am not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Go ahead, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: We could have a quota system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: A practical issue for me would be something like the shared island unit with the extra finances the State now has being invested in a cross-Border project to create the sort of society Professor FitzGerald is talking about with a significant investor company, be it between Derry and Donegal or Louth and Down. The concept of the Belfast economic corridor is the driver of the shared towns or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: When we met Derry Chamber of Commerce, it made the point to me that IDA Ireland should be investing in a way that would benefit both of those counties. I do not have the percentage of Donegal people who are employed in Derry but the number is significant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Dr. Farry from the Alliance Party is joining us online.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: When I was going to school a long time ago, there was the secondary school and there was the gairmscoil or vocational school. Professor Doyle is quite right. Students did two years in the vocational school and they got their trade, but that changed radically when the vocational schools started doing the leaving certificate and students started to stay on, and they have gone on to college...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: And Drogheda still has the best Deputies. There are three of us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is almost 4.05 p.m. and we must finish by 4.30 p.m. I am conscious of the witnesses' time and expertise. Two people have not spoken yet, so we will share the time to ensure we finish at 4.30 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Mr. Hazzard made a very important point. The witnesses could write our policy for us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Malahide into Connolly Station.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: Definitely not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: I must let Senator Currie in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: There is a cement factory in Drogheda, by the way. I must let Senator Currie in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is true.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Fergus O'Dowd: It has been a remarkably interesting, informative and challenging debate. The witnesses have laid out to us, as a committee and an Oireachtas, the issues we need to think about. Mr. Hazzard's question about the future and looking ahead is important, as was Senator Currie's question. We will need to invite back Professor Doyle and other political scientists regarding how a future state...