Debate contribution: Electricity Connection: New Builds
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 2 December 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Electricity Connection: New Builds
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4686698
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From the challenges that we have in making sure that projects get moving, the impact of 10 or 12 years of austerity Budgets is very clear, particularly the impact on Northern Ireland Water and the work that it needs to do to ensure that land is fit for development. Of course, the Minister for Infrastructure will continue to bid to get more support to be able to do that work, and Executive colleagues recognise that that rise is a serious handbrake, as you said, when it comes to development. It is incumbent on all of us across the Executive to try to work collectively to make sure that, where good development is possible, sustainable and in the interests of the people who live here, all obstacles to that are removed as quickly as they can be. However, some of that requires resource, and that is the biggest challenge that we have.
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