Three years on from the formation of new councils and with just over a year to go until a fresh election, Chair of the Northern Ireland Local Government Association’s (NILGA) Elected Member Development Working Group Stephen Martin talks to agendaNi about the progress that has been made. Spawned out of the reform of local government...
David Sterling, Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, speaks to David Whelan about the many challenges his organisation is facing in the absence of a functioning Executive, a looming Brexit and further budget reductions. As he approaches his first full year as Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, David Sterling admits that the...
Deputy Secretary Louise Warde Hunter discusses the direction being taken by the Department for Communities (DfC) and challenges being faced in developing housing policy. The head of Housing, Urban Regeneration and Local Government at the Department for Communities outlines that the draft Programme for Government (PfG) is guiding policy during the prolonged period of “limbocracy”...
Long-serving DUP MEP and self-professed Eurosceptic, Diane Dodds, talks with David Whelan on the need for an over-arching free trade agreement, Brexit’s impact on the fisheries and agriculture sectors and her future outside of the European Parliament. With less than a year to go until the UK exits the institutions of the European Union, Diane...
agendaNiJun 11, 2015Armagh, Banbridge and Craivavon Alderman Carla Lockhart has been appointed as President of NILGA for 2015-2016.
The DUP representative described her role as “a privilege and a challenge” at a time of more powers but also tighter finances.
