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20/06/2001
UP NORTH DOWN SOUTH
A REPORT published this week by the Northern Ireland Citizen Advice Bureau and its southern equivalent Comhairle aims to provide information and advice for those working and commuting across borders in the island of Ireland.
The Trasna Cross Border Advice Project report, entitled ‘Up North, Down South’, focuses on providing information and advice provisions in a cross border context.
The report was launched in response to the unique situation people commuting in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland experience. Both citizen advice agencies recognised that particular information had to be made available and clarified for people who lived in one jurisdiction and worked in the other.
Speaking at the launch Minister for Social Development Maurice Morrow said: “Crossing frontiers in the island of Ireland is an everyday occurrence whether to work, shop or to do business. There are no formalities. But there are some tricky legal and institutional questions.”
The report highlights everyday issues involving health care, social security and taxation systems that are made complicated by both the interaction of the two health care, social security and taxation systems and the operation of inter-governmental agreements and EU based provisions.
The work of this Trasna report not only demonstrates the value of cross-border co-operation but also makes recommendations for its improvement. Results from the report cross border queries show that social, health and housing issues need to be addressed at an administrative and policy level.
A database, that provides a cross-border advice network connecting the 85 Citizen Information Centres and the 28 NI Citizen Advice Centres, has already been established. Speaking at the launch Derek Alcorn Chief Executive of Citizen Advice Bureau in NI said that the cross-jurisdictional database was an innovative leading edge initiative: “The database dovetails in to the North South Ministerial Council research on Obstacles to Mobility in the island of Ireland and to the present emphasis on the development of E government.”
The project has been in operation for almost three years and is funded mainly though the Special Programme for Peace and Reconciliation. (AMcE)
The Trasna Cross Border Advice Project report, entitled ‘Up North, Down South’, focuses on providing information and advice provisions in a cross border context.
The report was launched in response to the unique situation people commuting in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland experience. Both citizen advice agencies recognised that particular information had to be made available and clarified for people who lived in one jurisdiction and worked in the other.
Speaking at the launch Minister for Social Development Maurice Morrow said: “Crossing frontiers in the island of Ireland is an everyday occurrence whether to work, shop or to do business. There are no formalities. But there are some tricky legal and institutional questions.”
The report highlights everyday issues involving health care, social security and taxation systems that are made complicated by both the interaction of the two health care, social security and taxation systems and the operation of inter-governmental agreements and EU based provisions.
The work of this Trasna report not only demonstrates the value of cross-border co-operation but also makes recommendations for its improvement. Results from the report cross border queries show that social, health and housing issues need to be addressed at an administrative and policy level.
A database, that provides a cross-border advice network connecting the 85 Citizen Information Centres and the 28 NI Citizen Advice Centres, has already been established. Speaking at the launch Derek Alcorn Chief Executive of Citizen Advice Bureau in NI said that the cross-jurisdictional database was an innovative leading edge initiative: “The database dovetails in to the North South Ministerial Council research on Obstacles to Mobility in the island of Ireland and to the present emphasis on the development of E government.”
The project has been in operation for almost three years and is funded mainly though the Special Programme for Peace and Reconciliation. (AMcE)
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