AQO 537/16-21

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 13/10/2016
Answered On Date: 24/10/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities what community benefit commitments were included in the tender from the successful contractor for the Windsor Park redevelopment.

Answer:

The contracts for each of the Stadium Projects include terms for robust social clauses, targeted at sectors facing greatest inequalities within areas of greatest objective need, concerning employment of Long-Term Unemployed, apprenticeships, work placements and delivery of a specific number of practical proposals to benefit the community and to deliver social returns.

The contractor for the Windsor Park project O’Hare and McGovern made an undertaking to deliver more than the identified five practical projects to deliver community initiatives and to return public benefits to the community e.g. school site visits and a charity fund raising event.

All targets in relation to Long Term Unemployed, Apprentices and Placement Student positions have been achieved for the project.