Debate contribution: Farmers: Food Production
Debate contribution by Mr Andrew Muir on .
- MLA
- Mr Andrew Muir
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Farmers: Food Production
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5670115
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I struggle to match this, where I have one question asking me not to take climate action and then another one about the impacts of climate change. Climate change has a real impact on food security. We are food-insecure in Northern Ireland because, whilst we produce a lot of protein in the form of meat, we do not produce enough in the arable sector. We need to be conscious of that. There is a real risk to us from the impacts of climate change, particularly in relation to food security across the UK, and we should be conscious of that.
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