Debate contribution: Economic Investment: Electricity Grid

Debate contribution by Mr David Honeyford on 14 September 2026.

MLA: Mr David Honeyford
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 14 September 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Economic Investment: Electricity Grid
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5685485

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Thank you, Minister, for your answer. ABO Energy is a major European renewables company with headquarters in my constituency of Lagan Valley. It has £1·1 billion of investment to come here but cannot realise it, half because of constraints on the grid. That is not just an energy problem; it is a problem for our economy. Does the Minister agree that it is one thing to have meetings and talk to all the stakeholders, but it is her Department's responsibility to produce a plan for moving forward that gives the outworking of how NIE Networks, SONI and the Utility Regulator will realise that, in much the same way as the Department for Infrastructure —

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 3892/22-27.

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