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JOURNAL of CROSS BORDER STUDIES in IRELAND No THE JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND No. 4 with information about the CENTRE FOR CROSS BORDER STUDIES (including 2008 annual report) Spring 2009 - Year 10 featuring an interview with Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson 1 JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND No.4 THE JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND Cartoon by Martyn Turner The Centre is part-financed by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG IVA Cross-border Programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body Editor: Andy Pollak ISBN: 978-1-906444-22-8 3 JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND No.4 The Minister for Education and Science, Ms Mary Hanafin TD, launches the 2008 ‘Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland’. From left to right: Mr Niall Holohan, Southern Deputy Joint Secretary, North/South Ministerial Council; Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, President, Dublin City University; Ms Hanafin; HE David Reddaway, British Ambassador to Ireland; Ms Mary Bunting, Northern Joint Secretary, North/South Ministerial Council; Dr Chris Gibson, CCBS Chairman; Mr Michael Kelly, Chairman, Higher Education Authority. CONTENTS A word from the Chairman 05 Chris Gibson “Business to be done and benefits to be gained”: The views 11 of Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Peter Robinson, on North-South cooperation What role for North-South economic cooperation in 19 a time of recession? Interviews with six business leaders and economists Andy Pollak and Michael D’Arcy Cross-border banking in an era of financial crisis: 35 EU rules need not apply Patricia Clarke and Ray Kinsella Learning to be good neighbours: The role of cross-border 53 spatial planning in Ireland Francois Vigier 4 JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND No.4 Dealing with cross-border sex offenders: 67 Learning from the North’s multi-agency approach Susan McKay Voting for unity or union? The complexities 79 of public opinion on the border issue John Coakley Towards cosmopolitanism? Renewing Irishness 91 in the 21st century Robin Wilson INFORMATION ABOUT THE CENTRE FOR CROSS BORDER STUDIES 107 Extracts from the Centre’s 2007-2008 Financial Statements 150 Contact details 153 5 JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND No.4 A WORD FROM THE CHAIRMAN Chris Gibson OBE March 2009 This September the Centre for Cross Border Studies will be 10 years old. Anyone who compares the four page introductory leaflet produced in 1999 with this 156 page Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland in 2009, with its wide range of research articles – from politics, the economy and banking to spatial planning, opinion polls and sex offenders – will testify to the great success of this pioneering initiative over the past decade. The tributes to its work for peacebuilding through practical cross-border Chris Gibson cooperation from leaders in both Irish jurisdictions are also testament to its achievements: from First Minister Peter Robinson (see interview in this issue), Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and successive Secretaries of State in Northern Ireland to President Mary McAleese and taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen in the South; along with heads of government departments, business chiefs, trade union leaders, university presidents and community and voluntary sector leaders in both jurisdictions. Since its foundation in September 1999, This phase also saw the beginning of the the Centre has seen three broad phases. Centre’s now well-established expertise in The first, from 1999 to 2002, largely organising North-South conferences, funded by the EU Peace Programme seminars and study days: more than 50 through the Special EU Programmes of these have been held in the past Body, was based on the delivery of a decade by the Centre and its associated number of cross-border research projects, organisations, bringing together over selected after open competition by the 4,000 people involved in health, Centre’s research committees, in education (including pre-school, primary, telecommunications, health (and mental secondary, third level, teacher and health), education, local government, citizenship education), the economy, animal health, local history societies, technology, planning, agriculture, tourism, sustainable development and EU ICT, local government, European funding programmes. cooperation, community development, 6 JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND No.4 ageing, waste management, housing, (www.borderireland.info) and Border sustainable development, banking and People (www.borderpeople.info). other practical areas. Many of these people – specialists in these subjects in At the same time it carried on doing their own jurisdictions – had never even commissioned research projects in more met their counterparts in the other Irish specialised cross-border areas like early jurisdiction before coming to one of years education, citizenship and science these CCBS-organised events. education, postgraduate flows, service delivery to minority ethnic groups, trade In its second phase, from 2002 to the union cooperation, out-of-hours GP present, the Centre moved away from services and hospital services. Its sister this concentration on research into a organisations also support significant more entrepreneurial mode: creating and research programmes: for example, managing cross-border and all-island SCoTENS has seed-funded over 40 networks, putting on training courses, research and conference projects in six and setting up information websites. years, one of which, on citizenship and During this period it was instrumental, diversity education, was the subject of a with partners in the relevant sectors, in book (by Dr Gerry Jeffers of NUI setting up and running Universities Maynooth and Dr Una O’Connor of Ireland, which brought together the University of Ulster) launched by Mary island’s nine universities; the Standing Robinson in February 2009. Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS), which networked Now in early 2009, the the island’s nine colleges of education Centre is moving into and nearly 30 other teacher education an exciting new phase. providers; the International Centre for It has been Local and Regional Development (ICLRD), commissioned by the which brought together spatial planning EU’s cross-border specialists from five research institutes in INTERREG IV the USA, Ireland and Northern Ireland; programme to the North/South Public Sector Training undertake five major Programme, which trained over 140 research, development, civil and public servants in practical training and information projects over the cross-border cooperation; the Irish- next three years. These new projects African Partnership for Research comprise the following: a programme of Capacity Building, which linked the nine ‘action research’ projects, training Irish universities with universities in courses, workshops and conferences in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and spatial planning for local planners, Malawi to support research in officials, councillors and community development, health, education, gender leaders in Northern Ireland and the and ICT; and two major online Southern border region (in partnership information systems: Border Ireland with the International Centre for Local 7 JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND No.4 and Regional Development); a study of available to institutions, organisations and how to revive the border region economy companies in each jurisdiction wishing to in a new era of peace and reconciliation work jointly with counterpart bodies but also of recession (with across the border. And not just across the InterTradeIreland); a study of the Irish border: in the past 15 months the feasibility of planning hospital services in Centre has hosted fact-finding visits from the Irish border region on a cross-border local and central government officials, basis (with the Institute of Public Health diplomats and academics from Norway, in Ireland); a pilot Impact Assessment Sweden, France, Spain, Netherlands, Toolkit, an innovative way of beginning Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, to measure the impact and effectiveness Lithuania, Cyprus and Hong Kong. Closer of cross-border cooperation in Ireland; to home, in October 2008 Andy Pollak and a second phase of the successful and Patricia Clarke addressed a visiting Border People mobility information delegation from the House of Commons website, which provides practical Welsh Affairs Committee seeking to learn information for people wishing to move about cross-border cooperation in Ireland across the Irish border to live, work, to help them formulate policy on such study or retire (with the North/South cooperation, particularly in health, along Ministerial Council). the English-Welsh border. This renewed emphasis on research will The Centre will be planning more go alongside the Centre’s continuing seminars and conferences, including work on all-Ireland networks in higher another international conference on Irish education, teacher education, spatial and European cross-border cooperation planning and cooperation with African in 2011. This will build on the experience universities. The Centre’s cross-border of the highly successful conference management, networking and entitled ‘Cross-Border Cooperation as part administrative expertise is always of the Northern Irish Peace Process: Some 8 JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND No.4 Lessons for Europe’ which was held in partner in a new phase of the Education Dundalk in June 2008, with speakers and for Reconciliation project, whose attenders
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