John Davis

So it's a big watch out for Ireland in terms of what's going to happen in London.

It's really, really important.

We have a Windsor framework in terms of the Brexit arrangements that are working reasonably well for Irish business.

We're going to have a key summit over the next couple of months in terms of a UK-EU summit to look at the nature of that UK relationship with Europe.

Can we make it closer?

Can we have better arrangements in terms of our trade in food and animal products, the so-called SBS trade?

kind of arrangements in terms of agricultural produce trade.

In terms of security and defense, we're definitely seeing that much stronger, you know, regional approach, right?

So UK has not left Europe.

It's still here in Europe, right?

And we've got a shared agenda in terms of security and defense, as does Ireland and the UK.

So some of these issues are really important.

And we have our shared island, right, where we've got to make sure that the island is working effectively, movement of goods, movement of people, movement of labor.

And then on the resilience agenda in terms of things like our energy and things like our data, things like our shared infrastructure and our shared security, that has never been more important on the island of Ireland.

So big issues for Irish business in working with UK business, both East, West and North, South, a positive political environment at the moment, but we're just seeing new risks emerge that we're going to have to map really, really closely.

Cheers, David.

Thanks for the time.

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