Debate contribution: Strategic Investment Board: Recruitment
Debate contribution by Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly on .
- MLA
- Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 11 May 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Strategic Investment Board: Recruitment
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5523710
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As the Member will be aware, it is incredibly important that we get the right people when appointments are being made. With regard to the initial question, I was referencing the SIB appointments. The review highlighted a significant amount of valuable work that the Strategic Investment Board does. However, I do not need to tell anybody across the Chamber about the frustrations that we all have about delivery, particularly of key capital infrastructure, so things need to change. I believe that the Strategic Investment Board, with its statutory responsibilities to help us to drive forward and deliver, particularly on capital infrastructure, has a pivotal role to play. The discussion that I had with the First Minister on that issue was about making sure that we get the right people for the SIB board. That extends to the Victims and Survivors Service board: we need to get the right people in order to deliver whatever we task them with.
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