Motion or amendment: Establishing an Independent Environmental Protection Agency
Motion or amendment by Mr Matthew O'Toole on .
- MLA
- Mr Matthew O'Toole
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 3 November 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Establishing an Independent Environmental Protection Agency
- Assembly identifier
- Document 457185
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Text
Establishing an Independent Environmental Protection Agency
That this Assembly notes the findings of the Independent Review of Environmental Governance in Northern Ireland, which identified that environmental pressures, including the crisis in Lough Neagh, reflect serious weaknesses in governance and accountability; agrees with the Review’s findings that the absence of a new model of environmental governance is undermining public trust, compliance and the delivery of environmental outcomes; and calls on the Executive to bring forward and pass legislation to establish an Environmental Protection Agency, properly resourced and operationally independent, before the end of this mandate.
94 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Divisions on this item
- 10 November 2025: Establishing an Independent Environmental Protection Agency – The Motion Was Carried
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