“It will be interesting to see what the delivery mechanism for that money will be.”

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In his analysis of where the £1.5 billion, over a number years, from the Conservative/DUP arrangement will be spent, the BBC’s John Campbell makes a couple of interesting points about some of the new money, and all of the old money.

There is also £100m to be spent on deprived communities over five years.

It will be interesting to see what the delivery mechanism for that money will be.

Stormont’s Social Investment Fund, which was also designed to help those communities, has been mired in controversy.

Another part of this deal is to give flexibility to a previously agreed £500m fund for investment in shared education and housing projects.

Stormont has struggled to spend this money, in its first year just £3m of a £50m allocation was spent.

So its is possible that the new flexibility will allow all that money to go into general infrastructure spending.

Hmmm…

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