Flooding meeting hit by leak
I'm just back from covering an emergency meeting of the Regional Development Committee at Stormont. The Committee was quizzing the Roads Service, Water Service and Rivers Agency about their response to the weekend floods. Headlines included the appointment of outside consultants to report on what went wrong at the Broadway Underpass and confirmation that a private company, Steria, has been employed to work on the long promised single flooding emergency line. The target date for this to become a reality is the end of October. And the DUP's George Robinson told us how he just managed to navigate his car through the increasingly aquatic underpass before it filled up with water.
Construction work at Stormont over the summer meant that the hearing could not be held in the Senate Chamber, which is equipped with fixed cameras. At one point the committee tried to switch the hearing to the more spacious Room 21, where the old Executive used to meet. But they couldn't use the room because of a leak.
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