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 5523714
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The investment strategy is an important aspect of what we are trying to do, and I commend all who undoubtedly put a huge amount of work into the draft strategy. I want a strategy that sets out for the people whom we serve across Northern Ireland what we are going to do on the big issues. We have been constrained time and again because of the Budget, but we still have to set out clearly what we are going to do to tackle, for example, waste and water over the next five to 10 years. What are we going to do to ensure that, when the Executive agree to build roads, they can be built and not stopped in the courts? What are we going to do to ensure energy security across Northern Ireland? How are we going to support our farmers and our businesses? Those are key issues. It can be good to get strategies and all the detail out there, but I want an investment strategy that actually works, sets out what we are going to do and is connected in a real way to the funding that could be available. We had developments recently with the prospect of a three-year Budget, the challenges that we are currently facing and, of course, the legal challenge in the courts to the A5 judgement. Those are critical to our capital investment plan, which is why we are actively reviewing that in light of what is happening.
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