Debate contribution: Infrastructure Commission
Debate contribution by Ms Michelle O'Neill on .
- MLA
- Ms Michelle O'Neill
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 22 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Infrastructure Commission
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5638163
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I can say to the Member that we are absolutely committed to ensuring that we can deliver our capital projects better, on time and on budget. We saw some of the difficulties in the past, with projects running way over time, often because of legal challenges and cases. We need to find ways to ensure that we can deliver our projects better.
An infrastructure commission is one potential part of that picture. It is one idea that has been advanced and that we have not ruled out. We have asked officials to consider more widely how we can improve the way that we deliver infrastructure projects, and an enabling action plan will be a key element of that.
Infrastructure commissions tend to focus on future needs rather than the practicalities of delivery in the here and now, so what is the right balance in how we proceed? Again, if we are going to establish another body, that will have to come to the Executive for decision. We have to do the other legs of work in order to inform a final decision.
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