Debate contribution: Climate Change: Departmental Actions
Debate contribution by Mr Andrew Muir on .
- MLA
- Mr Andrew Muir
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 6 May 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Climate Change: Departmental Actions
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4929729
Read the official Assembly record
Text
We are taking a significant number of actions, and there are actions that have to be taken across government and society. There are many sectors that sit outside my Department's remit that are relevant when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, particularly those that relate to energy and transport. Those actions are reflected in the climate action plan (CAP), which is with the Executive. I will be able to go out to consultation on that climate action plan once I get agreement on it from the Executive. I will engage in a 16-week consultation on the climate action plan, which runs from 2023 to 2027. Included in the climate action plan are actions on agriculture, waste, land use, land use change and forestry cover. Responsibility for those areas sits with my Department. Beyond that, on the subject of implementation of climate change legislation, my green growth strategy is also sitting with the Executive for agreement. That is concerned with giving opportunities for good green jobs and restoring our environment. It is important that we are able to move on with that so that we can grasp those opportunities for Northern Ireland. Also, we will soon go out to consultation on the Northern Ireland climate adaptation plan, and we are interested in views on that. Lastly, the sustainable agriculture programmes continue to be rolled out by my Department in the context of climate change being the biggest risk to farming. It is important that we give farmers the tools to respond to that and build resilience. There is so much that we can and should do on climate change.
268 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.02 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
- The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging threshold.
This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.
Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.02 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.01 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.01 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.50 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.02 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 1.00 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.00 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 1.00 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.00 |
| Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy | 0.00 |
| Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 12:26 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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