Debate contribution: NI Water: Multi-year Funding

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 19 May 2025.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 19 May 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: NI Water: Multi-year Funding
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4968322

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The capital departmental expenditure limit (CDEL) settlement for the Budget that we are debating today increases capital investment in water infrastructure by just between 1% and 2%, I think. Last week, in Dáil Éireann, the Minister's colleague Eoin Ó Broin moved a motion that Dáil Éireann:
"agrees that the Government must: — as a matter of urgency, set out its plans for the funding of, and delivery of, increased capacity of critical infrastructure required for the" —

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2007/22-27.

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