Northern Ireland Economy

The hon. Lady is crying ““nonsense””, but she invited people to come to St Patrick's country. In fact, the only place where St Patrick put his feet was on Slemish mountain, so I welcome her to come to North Antrim any time, and I also welcome those tourists who want to come to North Antrim. The golf resort that has been mentioned fits in with our Department for Regional Development strategy, our tourism strategy and the various economic strategies that have been put in place. It offers vast potential, but it does so 10 years after that potential was first identified. It offers that potential at a time now with approvals, when the economic climate has changed quite dramatically. But I believe that people are up to meeting the challenge, and I hope that Government will encourage them. Again, those people who would talk that project down and say, ““Oh, it's not the time for that type of proposal,”” or, ““It's destructive of our natural environment,”” really have to be put in their place by our national Government, who can say to the likes of those organisations that may be opposed to the project, ““Look, do you want Northern Ireland to go forward? Are you on the side of Northern Ireland? Or do you want to be in that bank of people who talk the place down?”” I hope that we can get a collective view, and I congratulate the SDLP Minister who was able to get the case over the line, but he addressed, and people must address, the fact that many misnomers have been identified. Some people said, ““Oh, this is being built on the Giant's Causeway.”” It is not. It is closer to Bushmills than to the Giant's Causeway. A public representative today issued a statement that houses would be dotted all over the causeway. That is rubbish. They are being built in the curtilage of Bushmills village. The previous Environment Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), made sure that that was in the proposal.