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 5523718
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A lot can be done. My party, the DUP, has ambitious plans for transformation and reform. People out there are deeply frustrated by what they see as a lack of delivery, and that is not because of the structures but because of the processes that we have in each and every Department. I have the privilege of working with two Ministers from my party, in Education and Communities, who are driving forward an ambitious agenda in those Departments. You are absolutely right: we have a series of key roads infrastructure projects that are currently suspended and awaiting the outcome of a legal case. I have said to the Infrastructure Minister and every member of the Executive, "Instead of putting our future in the hands of a court decision, let us get on and make the amendments to the climate change legislation to unlock that critical road infrastructure for the people of Northern Ireland". Indeed, safety cannot and should not wait for the judgement of a court when people in the Chamber can do something about it.
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