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Whilst the changes to tuition fees might not encourage student mobility around the UK, the North South Ministerial Conference continues to ponder the obstacles to cross border job mobility. The Foyle MP Mark Durkan tells me one difficulty is that those who work in the north, but live in the south are treated by the Irish and British tax authorities as "complex cases". This can lead to slow processing of their taxes and tax credits. Mr Durkan adds that the process has been slowed down even more by the tendency of the British authorities to try to communicate with the Irish tax office dealing with these cases via letters bearing second class stamps. Maybe someone in the Inland Revenue needs to be made aware that Letterkenny (where the office in question is located) is over the border.

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