Debate contribution: Waste Water Regulation and Enforcement
Debate contribution by Mr Keith Buchanan on .
- MLA
- Mr Keith Buchanan
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 3 March 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Ministerial Statements
- Heading
- Waste Water Regulation and Enforcement
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5434602
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Last week, my colleagues on Mid Ulster District Council heard a representative from NI Water state as fact that 70% of water pollution originates from agriculture. We are not going to get into the 70/62 debate about figures. You said in your statement that more than 20 million tons of untreated sewage goes into waterways every year. If you do the calculation of what Lough Neagh holds and put in 20 million tons of sewage, you work out that it would not take that many years to fill it.
As Agriculture and Environment Minister, will you defend farmers against factually incorrect information?
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