To ask the Minister for Regional Development for a timescale on the repair of street lights in the Causeway Coast and Glens area.

My Department is currently increasing routine maintenance operations, as a result of the Executive decision to prioritise funding for this area in the recent monitoring round. This funding will deliver enhanced levels of service. My Department is working to ensure the public can see the difference made as quickly as possible but would ask for understanding that it will take some time before the entire backlog will be cleared.

The measured term street lighting contractor has two fully equipped maintenance teams currently repairing street lights across the Causeway Coast and Glens Council area.

My Department aims to repair the majority of the lights that it is aware of by Christmas. However, given the scale of the current backlog of outages, it may be that some lights will not be fully operational until early January 2016.