Maze Information Not Available
Jun 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: InformationA top official in the Department of Finance has admitted it is unsatisfactory that some information his officials require to make a decision over the Maze development has not been made available.
Mr O’Reilly told assembly members “We can say to departments, as we have said, the information and the way it’s been presented looks unsatisfactory, there’s gaps, there’s inconsistencies, there seems to be lots of information which could be presented in a better way, its not available on jobs… I mean completely unsatisfactory.”
He added: “It’s totally irritating and unsatisfactory that we’ve been given a set of figures on jobs to analyse.
“We have raised concerns because of the apparent lack of involvement of Invest (Northern Ireland) or DETI in analysing those jobs and yet you hear the media talking about 10,000 jobs that we have not seen.
“No-one’s given us the information and yet understandably, because it’s in the media, people will want to question us about them.”
Sinn Fein assembly member Jennifer McCann said she did not believe enough information had been collated to allow officials to reach the decision that the Maze did not offer value for money.
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