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Northern Ireland and the EU Referendum inquiry

Inquiry by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, 15 January 2016 to 26 May 2016. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 3 February 2016: Professor Neil Gibson, Director, Economic Policy Centre, University of Ulster, Dr Leslie Budd, Reader, Open University Business School, and Dr Graham Gudgin, Research Associate, Centre For Business Research, University of Cambridge; Dr Cathal McCall, Reader in Politics, Dr Lee McGowan, Senior Lecturer in Politics, and Professor Dagmar Schiek, Jean Monet Professor of EU Law, Queen's University Belfast (at 10.30am).
  • 10 February 2016: Tom Arnold, Director General, Institute for International and European Affairs, John McGrane, Director General, British-Irish Chamber of CommerceDan Mulhall, Ambassador of Ireland
  • 24 February 2016: Wilfred Mitchell OBE, Policy Chairman, and Roger Pollen, Head of External Affairs, Federation of Small Businesses, Northern Ireland branch, and Patricia O’Hagan MBE, Chief Executive Officer, Core Systems Ltd.
  • 2 March 2016: Conor Houston, Programme Director, EU Debate NI, Centre for Democracy and Peace Building
  • 7 March 2016: Mike Nesbitt MLA and Michael McGimpsey MLA, Ulster Unionist Party; Declan Kearney, National Chairperson, Paul Maskey MP, and Megan Fearon MLA, Sinn Féin (at 1.45pm); Gavin Robinson MP, Democratic Unionist Party (at 2.30pm); David Ford MLA, The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, and Stephen Farry MLA, The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (at 3.45pm); Jim Allister MLA, Traditional Unionist Voice, and Councillor Henry Reilly, Traditional Unionist Voice (at 4.15pm); Colum Eastwood MLA, Social Democratic and Labour Party (at 4.45pm); Steven Agnew MLA and Councillor Ross Brown, Green Party in Northern Ireland (at 5.15pm).
  • 8 March 2016: George Hamilton QPM, Chief Constable, Police Service of Northern Ireland, and Will Kerr, Assistant Chief Constable, Police Service of Northern Ireland; David Gavaghan, Chair, CBI NI, Judith Totten, Chair of CBI NI Economic Affairs Network, Andy Bagnall, Director of Campaigns, CBI, Ian Sheppard, Chair, Economic Strategy Committee, Institute of Directors, and Dr Joanne Stuart OBE, Former Chairman, Institute of Directors Northern Ireland (at 10.15am); Glyn Roberts, Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association (at 11.15am); Robin McCormick, General Manager, SONI (at 12.00pm).
  • 16 March 2016: Wesley Aston, Chief Executive, and Ian Marshall, President, Ulster Farmers' Union.
  • 23 March 2016: Ben Wallace MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office.