Road improvements that are promised but never materialise. University expansion which is promised but never materialises. Railway investment which is promised and only partially materialises.
Derry~Londonderry is 40% the size of Belfast but Belfast gives itself 80% of Invest NI financing while Derry~Londonderry get 2.7%. This is organised by having 14 staff in Derry~Londonderry and 536 in Belfast.
Our main stadium has been refused funds for renovation for the past 30 years while Stormont funded not 1, not 2, but 3 new stadia in Belfast for £100 million.
Our concert hall was refused £1 million to extend its lease for one more year while the Waterfront is getting a £29 million extension. Incidentally the concert hall could have been purchased for £6 million but was instead leased for a year for £4.6 million so that it would not form part of any legacy after City of Culture year.
The same fate befell the Turner Prize Gallery which had enjoyed 70,000 visitors in 2 months while millions have been spent on The Lyric Theatre (£11 million), The Opera House and The Ulster Museum all in Belfast. The Titanic Museum got £100 million of public funding on its own and when £20 million European funding application was turned down the Northern Ireland exchequer just picked that up as well.
Meanwhile Belfast has an over distribution of an additional 20,000 civil servants that Stormont has refused to decentralise citing cost as the reason. These civil servants need housed in additional millions of square feet of office space which then serves as a subsidy via rates to Belfast City Council who then enjoy per capita council budget of £550 versus just £370 in Derry~Londonderry. These civil servants then use the Belfast airports so in effect subsidising them with business while the rate payers of Derry~Londonderry get to subsidise LDY's business losses.
Then there's the lack of a regional cancer centre, lower allowances for housing benefit payments, tax breaks for commuting via public transport to Belfast but not Derry~Londonderry using the same Translink buses and trains, etc, etc, etc.
I could go on........