Debate contribution: Independent Environmental Protection Agency

Debate contribution by Mr Patsy McGlone on 19 February 2024.

MLA: Mr Patsy McGlone
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 19 February 2024
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Independent Environmental Protection Agency
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4223279

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I thank the Minister, and I wish him well in his new position. Minister, as is obvious from your response, we both agree on the need for independent oversight to call out your Department, and indeed other Executive colleagues, on environmental issues such as the one that we have experienced, the ecological crisis in Lough Neagh. Can you give the Assembly a time frame for the completion of the governance review and when might we see the actual process of establishing an independent environmental protection agency? We have had many reviews but no action.

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 16/22-27.

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