Debate contribution: Roads: Tree and Hedge Cutting

Debate contribution by Mr Doug Beattie MC on 3 November 2025.

MLA: Mr Doug Beattie MC
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 3 November 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Roads: Tree and Hedge Cutting
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5213100

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Thank you, Minister, for your answer. I will be honest and say that, if I were to send you an email about every road or footpath issue that I have, I would be spamming you for days on end. The problem is that the overgrown vegetation on private and public land sometimes causes a risk to people. I know that your Department puts out enforcement action, but people do not take it and the Department does not follow it up. Can you do anything to start following up on the enforcement action that the Department puts out?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1713/22-27.

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