Debate contribution: Dilapidation Bill: Japanese Knotweed
Debate contribution by Mr Andrew Muir on .
- MLA
- Mr Andrew Muir
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Dilapidation Bill: Japanese Knotweed
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5670110
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Ultimately, we have properly scrutinised the Dilapidation Bill. We will, hopefully, deliver the Bill in the Assembly tomorrow. It will be for councils to use the legislation. I urge councils to see the wider picture. By bringing buildings back into use, councils will potentially increase their rates base and see the revitalisation of villages, towns and city centres. I therefore urge councils to embrace the legislation and to use it in the spirit that is intended, which is to provide flexibility of use.
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