Debate contribution: Bluetongue
Debate contribution by Mr Tom Buchanan on .
- MLA
- Mr Tom Buchanan
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Bluetongue
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5669983
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Text
Given the number of cases across the water, farmers are somewhat concerned about not only disease risk but the financial hit should a case come this way and bluetongue restrictions suddenly tighten in Northern Ireland. Will the Minister confirm whether compensation arrangements, movement-control protocols and rapid-testing capacity are fully in place so that farmers are not left carrying the cost of uncertainty if a suspected case should arise in Northern Ireland?
71 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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