Does DfI Apply Its Own Rules Consistently? The Department for Infrastructure uses a standard five-part framework — the DoF Better Business Cases methodology — to assess every significant transport proposal it considers. It is the same framework that underpins the A5 Western Transport Corridor, Northern Ireland’s largest active roads project. We applied that same framework […]
WHY NOT? THE MINISTER ASKED THE RIGHT QUESTION. NOW WE NEED THE ANSWER IN WRITING. On 3 February 2026, Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins MLA stood in the Northern Ireland Assembly and, in the course of an Adjournment Debate on the A20 Portaferry Road, said the following about a permanent crossing over Strangford Lough: “If there […]
Stormont is overspending on day‑to‑day services it can’t afford, underspending on the investment money it does have, and overrunning by billions on the projects it actually delivers. That single sentence captures why Northern Ireland’s public finances feel broken – and why “more money from London” on its own will never fix the problem. The detail…. […]