Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs – in the Northern Ireland Assembly am 3:30 pm ar 17 Mehefin 2024.
My environmental improvement plan has six strategic environmental outcomes. I will outline them in writing to the Member. On 24 March 2022, Minister Edwin Poots MLA approved the environmental improvement plan and wrote to Executive colleagues. He made a statement to the Assembly on Thursday 24 March, which was the last Assembly sitting of that mandate. He said:
"Our environment affects every aspect of our existence. It is central to all life: what we do; what we eat; how we work; and where we live and play. It is, unquestionably, our most precious asset." — [Official Report (Hansard), 24 March 2022, p16, col 1].
He commended the plan to the Assembly. I commend it to the Executive.