Impact of devolution on crossborder commerce

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Impact of devolution on cross-border
commerce Aidan Gough and Eoin Magennis
(InterTradeIreland) IBIS seminar, 6 February
2009
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cold denying silence that descended on this
island for too long in the past century and
resulted in a process of friction and frission
Conor Brady
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Economics and Peacemaking

• Unless you achieve economic transformation,
• you cant have a stable society.
• Sir George Quigley (March 2007)
• Economic progress is crucial to the
• political forces that favour peace
• Portland Trust (May 2007)

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British Subvention to Northern Ireland
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Employment in the Public Sector
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Participation Rates in Further and Higher
Education
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Unemployment in Northern Ireland
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Troubles Related Deaths
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The Belfast Agreement, 1998.
Six Cross-Border Bodies
InterTradeIreland
A Body to exchange information and co-ordinate
work on trade, business development and related
matters, in areas where the two administrations
specifically agree it would be in their mutual
interest.
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Institutional Arrangements
Northern Ireland Assembly Executive
Irish Government
North-South Ministerial Council
InterTradeIreland
Department of Enterprise, Trade Investment
Department of Enterprise, Trade Employment
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InterTradeIreland
1998
NOW

• Political
  Economic
• Cross Border All
  Island
• Trade
  Competitiveness

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Cross-Border Trade Statistics
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Cross-Border Tourism Statistics
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Cross-Border Traffic Volumes
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Cross-Border Bus and Rail Travel Statistics
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Cross-Border Student Flows
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Cross-Border Public and EU Investment Flows
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Cross-Border Opportunities in the Current
Economic Climate

• Create gains in trade and investment
• Generate economies of scale
• Deliver more efficient and effective public
  services
• Promote wider economic benefits
• Reduce market failures
• Open new or missing markets
• Deliver more balanced regional development