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Mr John Blair: Assembly records
All of Mr John Blair’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether he will implement an immediate ban on burning on peatland habitats to prevent further damage to these carbon stores and enhance efforts to restore peatlands to full health.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that Northern Ireland achieves the targets of our Nationally Determined Contribution of the Paris Agreement.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether he will appoint organic advisors in his Department to advise farmers on transitioning to organic farming.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the amount of funding for rural projects provided by his Department in South Antrim, in each of the last five years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what mitigating actions his Department is taking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, following the decision to permit Kilroot power station to exceed its emissions limits.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline the reasoning behind his Department’s decision to permit Kilroot power station to exceed its emissions limits.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what consideration his Department has given to (i) the development of sectoral plans for the agriculture sector; and (ii) the rollout of carbon audits of farms to assess where performance improvements and savings can be made, as required in the Climate…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what consultation his Department has conducted with stakeholders ahead of developing Sectoral Plans, as required in the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the schools in the South Antrim constituency that have benefited from the School Pollinator Garden Scheme.
To ask the Minister for the Economy what consideration his Department has given to the development of sectoral plans for the energy sector, as required in the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure what consideration his Department has given to the development of sectoral plans for the transport sector, as required in the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (i) what consideration he has given to the disparity of charges, between local councils, for complaints in relation to the High Hedges Act (Northern Ireland) 2011; and (ii) whether there is a planned review, with a view to standardising this charge.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, in relation to the Park Road, Mallusk, to detail (i) when the last road safety assessment was conducted, given the high numbers of heavy goods vehicles using this rural road; and (ii) the outcome of any such road safety assessment.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what consideration he has given to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land which concludes that unsustainable land management is a direct cause of land degradation, with agriculture being a dominant…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what consideration he has given to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land which concludes that the expansion of areas agriculture have contributed to increasing net greenhouse gas emissions.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what consideration he has given to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.
To ask the Minister for the Economy what consideration he has given to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 796/22-27, to provide a timeframe in which he intends to launch the public consultation on the first Climate Action Plan.
To ask the Minister for the Economy what consideration he has given to the recommendations in the Doubling Back and Doubling Down: G20 scorecard on fossil fuel funding report.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, following the publication of the Doubling Back and Doubling Down: G20 scorecard on fossil fuel funding report, what steps he has taken to improve Northern Ireland’s contribution to the UK’s (i) rating for progress in ending support for fossil fuels; ii) rating for transparency; and…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to outline his plans to bring forward legislative proposals to require new build homes and buildings to have electric car charging points.