Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs – in the Northern Ireland Assembly am 3:15 pm ar 17 Mehefin 2024.
I received some feedback on the report, and I will be engaging with stakeholders on Wednesday. I am engaging with the Lough Neagh Partnership, the Northern Ireland Environment Link, the Ulster Farmers' Union and the Northern Ireland Agricultural Producers Association. I am looking forward to that engagement so that we can get the report finalised for the end of this week. Hopefully, we can get it agreed at the Executive next week and give people in Northern Ireland hope after the scenes of last year. We are aware that there are already blue-green algae blooms in Lough Neagh, but we have hope that we will chart a course to turn the situation around. I am confident that we can do that, because together we can achieve so much more for the people of Northern Ireland. Let us get the report and the environmental improvement plan agreed and actually show delivery and positive change for people in Northern Ireland.