DSD’s using sticking plaster when a comprehensive housing review is what’s needed?
From a systemic point of view, the most worrying aspect of the Northern Ireland Water story (in all its often obscure complexity) was the unfit-for-purpose nature of internal (and external) reporting around government processes. In yesterday’s subscription only Irish News Newton Emerson offers a fascinating and important insight into ‘how things are done’ in Northern Ireland politics government yesterday. The picture he gets reading from the back of the Inquiry report on Helm housing’s disastrous venture into property speculation is very different from that given …