Debate contribution: Strategies
Debate contribution by Ms Joanne Bunting on .
- MLA
- Ms Joanne Bunting
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 27 May 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Strategies
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4972270
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The Executive programme on paramilitarism and organised crime (EPPOC) team did a piece of work that showed that the number of strategies relating to paramilitarism, for example, was 89. That did not cover all the Departments, nor is there a centrally held list of strategies. A recent report to the Justice Committee indicated that elements of one strategy took so long to implement, due to a lack of resources and failure to agree on which Department was the lead, that it was completely superseded by other strategies. Given the extreme budgetary pressures faced by Northern Ireland, what can be done by the First Minister's Department to make government more cohesive, to reduce duplication and to have Departments pulling in the same direction, thus getting a bigger bang for the taxpayer buck?
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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2034/22-27.
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