Debate contribution: Local Economic Partnerships
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
- Local Economic Partnerships
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4686702
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We are in dialogue with councils to ensure that those plans are worked through and understood clearly by everybody, that whatever measures are needed to make sure that they can function are there and that we do so at pace, because we want to see the local economic partnerships up and running by the new financial year. We will continue to work with councils. We have a very good engagement with the councils, and, of course, they know that we have proposed that a fund be provided to support the local economic partnerships and assist them in the work that we intend them to do. Of course, we will have support through Invest NI and its officials. Departmental officials will work more closely with councils in those areas to give advice and support to ensure that there is capacity in councils to deliver economic plans. Some councils are much more advanced than others, so capacity needs to be increased in certain councils. We will continue to do that over the coming months in order to make sure that we get the partnerships off to a good start.
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