Debate contribution: Planning and Waste Water Infrastructure
Debate contribution by Dr Caoimhe Archibald on .
- MLA
- Dr Caoimhe Archibald
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 14 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Planning and Waste Water Infrastructure
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5685446
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I thank the Member for his question. I am not sure that there is a dataset that captures what he set out. When businesses and investors make decisions, they make them based on a range of measures, so, of course, Invest will interrogate the various issues that any investor identifies, and it will have a record of that. I am happy to correspond with the Member on the detail of how that information is captured and the exact dataset that Invest NI captures. The chief executive of Invest NI has identified some of the constraints, with which we are all very familiar, as a challenge. Certainly, I have been working with him, as I have with my Executive colleagues, to try to find a way forward. The Infrastructure Minister and I are putting a focus on what more we can do from an innovative perspective to try to free up capacity, allow economic development to take place and, importantly, allow houses to be built.
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