At the December sitting of Tynwald Enterprise Minister Lawrie Hooper will be looking for support for a new multi-million pound Island Infrastructure Scheme, which is designed to stimulate and accelerate the development of privately owned and unoccupied brownfield sites. Ministerial promises relating to brownfield sites have come and gone almost as frequently as the tide on Douglas shore, so why is this Council of Ministers so sure it will deliver where so many governments have failed in the past.