Debate contribution: Sheep Farming: Sustainable Agriculture Programme

Debate contribution by Ms Aoife Finnegan on 29 September 2025.

MLA: Ms Aoife Finnegan
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 29 September 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Sheep Farming: Sustainable Agriculture Programme
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5139068

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Minister, do you acknowledge the real risk that the sheep sector, which already faces challenges, could be further disadvantaged and left vulnerable by competing departmental priorities and a policy process that appears to be increasingly disconnected from the realities on the ground?

42 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1594/22-27.

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