Ms Miriam Delaney:

It is a cross-party, cross-disciplinary group. It is not under the responsibility of any one Minister or Department. This is also critical because we see very good work being done by the Department of Rural and Community Development through programmes such as the town and village renewal scheme but that this can sometimes be contradicted by, for example, a new secondary school being built two miles outside the town. Despite all the effort put into public realm design and vacancies in town centres, another Department can do something which counters this work. That lack of cross-departmental cohesion is a big problem.