Northern Ireland in Solution Mode: What If the Executive Is No Longer “Too Big to Fail”? Northern Ireland does not simply have an infrastructure problem. It has a growing problem of financial credibility, fragmented responsibility and confidence in the Executive’s ability to take difficult decisions and deliver them. For four consecutive years, exceptional Treasury support […]
Compiled from Department for Infrastructure (DfI) Northern Ireland Planning Statistics, 2016/17–2024/25. Published 15 July 2026. Every three months, the Department for Infrastructure quietly publishes a set of numbers that shape whether homes get built, whether businesses can expand, and how long ordinary people wait to hear back on an extension or a new build. Pulled […]
No Minister, No Business Case, No Rulebook: What DfI’s Own Paperwork Just Told Us Regular readers will know we’ve made the economic case for an independent feasibility study more times than we can count. This time, we’re not arguing about money. We’re pointing at the Department’s own filing cabinet. A Freedom of Information response landed […]