Debate contribution: Agri-food Sector: Cost Pressures
Debate contribution by Mr Andrew Muir on .
- MLA
- Mr Andrew Muir
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 28 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Agri-food Sector: Cost Pressures
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5762362
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The outcome from my continuing engagement is that I then engage further with the Department of Finance about Budget allocation. You mentioned the farm sustainability payment. We have managed to safeguard that payment this year and in future years. It is critical that we provide that support to the farming community in Northern Ireland while also delivering further schemes, including Farming with Nature. One outcome from my engagements is that processors often come to me to tell me about the impact of UK migration policy on their ability to staff their premises correctly and to operate. I make those cases to the Home Office, but it does not help me when your party takes the approach of going even harder on restrictions on the migration of people who would fill those posts.
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