Paul Stapleton, Managing Director of NIE Networks talks to Owen McQuade about the challenges in running an electricity network business and how the grid is facilitating the transition to a low carbon energy future. NIE Networks operate the electricity distribution network in Northern Ireland. It is an extensive network of 47,000 km with around 300...
Head of Energy Strategy Division in the Department for the Economy, Joe Reynolds, discusses the challenges facing the development of a future energy strategy for Northern Ireland and the trends affecting its perceived outcomes. Contextualising energy policy in Northern Ireland as being currently caught between the 2010 Strategic Energy Framework and the development of a...
Katy Hayward of Queen’s University Belfast offers her reflections on Brexit, borders and their potential impacts on criminal justice co-operation in Ireland. Opening her presentation, Hayward suggests that many questions remain unresolved in relation to the impact of Brexit on security and criminal justice cooperation in Ireland. Indeed, throughout her analysis she notes that the...
Paul Wickens, Chief Executive of Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) for the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS), discusses the journey of digital government in Northern Ireland to date and offers some insight on the future roadmap of three new key strategies. Paul Wickens outlines that a lot has changed since the original concept of nidirect and...
The Government has closed the Childcare Voucher scheme to new entrants from 4 October 2018, despite clear evidence that thousands of families will be left worse off as a result. Over the...
The British Government repeatedly emphasises its commitment to the Good Friday Agreement. For instance, in the December Joint Report from the negotiators of the EU and the UK, it committed to protecting...
Dr Laurence Dorman, a GP in Kilkeel and Deputy Chair (for Policy) of RCGPNI, discusses the challenges of provision for mental health services in General Practice in light of the fact that...
David Sterling, Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service recently warned diplomats in Brussels of the dangers of a no-deal Brexit. agendaNi summarises Sterling’s speech, which articulated “deep concerns” about Northern Ireland’s...
Dr Alan Stout was recently elected as Chair of the Northern Ireland general practitioners committee. Here he outlines the challenges facing GPs in Northern Ireland. In past few years we have talked...
Paul Stapleton, Managing Director of NIE Networks talks to Owen McQuade about the challenges in running an electricity network business and how the grid is facilitating the transition to a low carbon...
“It’s us today, tomorrow it could be you”. Those were the words of veteran journalist Barry McCaffrey as he addressed fellow members of the press outside Belfast’s Musgrave police station following his...
The latest research from InterTradeIreland takes an in-depth look at small firms participating in cross-border exporting. This research uses new micro datasets to really understand how Brexit will impact SMEs. This means...
An estimated overspend of up to £700 million; a bombshell BBC interview and the subsequent collapse of the Stormont Executive has made the ‘cash-for-ash’ controversy one of the most damaging scandals to...
With 2018 headlines dominated by the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Lynsey Mallon, Corporate and Commercial Partner at leading law firm Arthur Cox, explains why the introduction of the...
