Written question AQW 50408/22-27
Written question by Mr Declan McAleer on .
- MLA
- Mr Declan McAleer
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 3 July 2026
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 50408/22-27
- Department
- Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
- Business
- To the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
- Assembly identifier
- Document 494025
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To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 48440/22-27, to detail (i) the membership of the Public Sector Food Procurement Working Group; (ii) any actions that have been agreed to increase the sourcing of locally produced food across schools, hospitals, prisons and other public sector organisations; (iii) any barriers identified by the Working Group, including the steps being taken to address them; (iv) any targets, benchmarks or performance indicators that have been established to measure the proportion of locally sourced food purchased by the public sector; (v) the current estimated percentage and value of locally sourced food procured by (a) schools; (b) hospitals; (c) prisons; and (d) government departments and agencies, including a breakdown of these figures in each of the last five years; and (vi) any anticipated timeframe for the completion of the Working Group's work and the implementation of any recommendations.
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