QuestionTime - North Antrim Capital Funding for schools

New schools have been built recently in Ballycastle and Portglenone in the North Antrim constituency and the Education Minister attended the opening of both of these in the past two weeks.

Its quite clear that the level of capital build spend is far superior to the Minister's Direct Rule predecessors who handed back millions of pounds unspent, a disgraceful situation which Caitriona has succesfully addressed. We do need more capital spend in the constituency for schools such as Castle Tower and Braidside Integrated but there is a long list of schools waiting and the key to securing such funding is (1) The Executive addressing the massive cut in Capital Spending which the British Government is proposing and (2) The Finance Minister allocating more money to the Education Minister for Capital Spending on Schools.

More capital build will also help our Construction workers who are going through a very difficult time at the moment so the benefits of this are multiple.