John O’Dowd said people in rural areas would be “aghast' at complaints about multi-million-pound investments.
Stormont’s infrastructure minister has defended his department following complaints of roadworks causing traffic congestion in Belfast.
The Sinn Féin minister said the issues were being reviewed, but added that “we cannot completely plan out inconvenience". In the Stormont assembly on Monday, some members described the congestion in Belfast as "traffic chaos".
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