ENTERPRISE COMMITTEE WELCOME ‘TITANIC’ GRANT

Date: Friday 25 May 2007

ETI 3/07

The Chairperson of the Enterprise, Trade and Investment has welcomed the Executive’s approval to bid for a £25m grant from the UK Lottery fund for the Titanic Quarter project in Belfast.

Mr Mark Durkan, Committee Chairperson said:

‘This major tourist project has the potential to attract significant numbers of visitors from around the world. Investment in the tourism infrastructure is essential to economic regeneration within Belfast and throughout Northern Ireland as a whole. The Committee for Enterprise, Trade and Investment is taking an active interest in the Titanic Quarter and other signature projects such as the Giant’s Causeway and the Walled City signature projects’.

NOTE TO EDITOR

The Committee for Enterprise, Trade and Investment’s membership is:

Chairperson Mark Durkan MP (SDLP)
Deputy Chairperson Paul Maskey (Sinn Fein)

Alliance
Sean Neeson

DUP
Simon Hamilton
Robin Newton
David Simpson

Sinn Fein
Jennifer McCann
Mitchel McLaughlin

SDLP
Alasdair McDonnell

UUP
Leslie Cree
Alan McFarland

All enquiries regarding the work of the Committee should be directed to the Committee Clerk, Lucia Wilson, Room 424, Parliament Buildings, Belfast, BT4 3XX ( ( 028 905 21230).