Small business calls for cooperation in North
The Federation of Small Businesses in the North has urged the Irish and British governments to convene a round table with stakeholder organisations and local political parties to ensure that an all-Ireland economic scheme has a wide ownership.
The FSB policy chairman Wilfred Mitchell said: “There are clearly many positive initiatives in this joint study, particularly on increasing research & development, modernising our infrastructure and increasing cross-border trade.
“However we need to ensure that such a plan has the widest possible ownership from the business community and all our main political parties and would urge the governments to convene a round table to achieve this.
“The FSB would also like the two governments to spell out in more detail the costing for the various initiatives in the study and to ensure that it will have clear linkages to a possible financial package which could be in the pipeline."
