Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 11 March 2025.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 11 March 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4855396

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Minister, people hearing you say that we will continue the way we have been doing for the last few years in relation to NI Water will be tearing their hair out. Lough Neagh is an open-air cesspool. Your constituency faces on to it. The previous Sinn Féin Communities Minister promised 100,000 homes in the next 15 years. How in God's name you will deliver those without proper investment I do not know. You talked about comparing the situation with that in England. Nobody, certainly in the Opposition, is calling for an English-style system — far from it — but that does not mean that we should simply drift along as we have been doing.

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1131/22-27.

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