I thank the Member for her question. She touches on a number of matters. Does the Northern Ireland Environment Agency have the resources that it needs? No, it does not, but I am reprioritising within my Department to give it what I can. I will bid in future Budgets for future years to see whether we can further increase the resources for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. It is important that it has those resources so that it can respond to those incidents promptly. It is important to send the message today that, if anyone is aware of any water pollution incident, they should report it promptly to the pollution hotline to enable a response.

I have established the enforcement team in the Lough Neagh catchment area as a first step in taking action on this. I also want to take further measures, one of which is a review of the sentencing framework for environmental crime. I am keen to do that in conjunction with the Justice Minister. It is absolutely fundamental that we do that and that we review the regulation around the issue. It is something that we put a lot of effort into. The fish kills that have been reported in recent days anger me, because they really damage our environment. We need to address it and to ensure that we take action to prevent it occurring again.