Alleyways: North Belfast

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Infrastructure – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:00 pm on 11 June 2024.

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Photo of John O'Dowd John O'Dowd Sinn Féin 2:00, 11 June 2024

I agree, but, unfortunately, when you get into the bureaucracy of government, you sometimes find that you have to find out who owns that public infrastructure. That is the challenge for each Department. However, as I said to Mr Kingston, I am more than happy to play my part, along with my Department, in engaging with any of our councils or the Housing Executive on how we can find solutions. One of the solutions may well be empowering communities and seeing how we can engage with communities and community organisations on how we can support them to maintain areas that are not under the ownership of any Department.