Minister announces board appointments to Northern Ireland Screen
Economy Minister Diane Dodds has announced the appointment of three new members to the board of Northern Ireland Screen.
Executive Daily Update: Initiatives to deal with Coronavirus (17 June 2020)
Northern Ireland Executive ministers and their officials have over the past 24 hours been involved in a number of initiatives and critical decisions relating to the Coronavirus emergency.
Getting things done – Clayhills Drive #dundeewestend
Following some pothole repairs in Clayhills Drive, residents asked me if the promised improvements to the road surface would still be possible this year, so I took this matter up with the council’s Roads Maintenance Partnership.
The partnership manager has responded positively as follows :
“We are currently only undertaking essential works, which in reference to Clayhills Drive has been the filling of potholes which constituted a safety defect.
Planned maintenance works, such as scheme patching and resurfacing, are to recommence once operating restrictions are relaxed.
I can confirm it is our intension to undertake planned structural inlay patching works at Clayhills Drive in the current financial year.
When we recommence operations it’ll be on a phased return basis over the first month. The existing planned works programme has gone awry following lockdown. In addition to the implications of a phased resource return, we will also have a compressed summer window to undertake the seasonal works activities like surface dressing, footway slurry sealing, school playground resurfacing etc.
We also have new priority projects such as the Spaces for People 20mph and traffic management projects, plus the completion of committed timescale works and works suspended at lockdown.
We are reviewing the programme constraints however it is likely that structural inlay sites such as Clayhills Drive will move backwards in the delivery year to Autumn/Winter.”
Dodds re-allocates £30million to address COVID-19 budgetary pressures
Minister for the Economy Diane Dodds has approved the re-allocation of £30million from within her Departmental budget to address emerging COVID-19 budget pressures.
Dodds announces 52 new jobs in a first-time investment by education platform provider Firefly
Economy Minister Diane Dodds today welcomed GB investor Firefly Learning Ltd to Northern Ireland, in an investment which will create 52 new jobs.