Debate contribution: Periwinkle Harvesting
Debate contribution by Mr Robbie Butler on .
- MLA
- Mr Robbie Butler
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 18 May 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Periwinkle Harvesting
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5548391
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In his answer to the tabled question, it seemed that the Minister was apportioning blame to the Committee for not passing the SR in the limited time that we had. Minister, do you accept that, in reality, the AFBI report and science relate to Strangford lough? That is what the evidence relates to. You wanted to put a ban on periwinkle gathering across the shores, up the eastern seaboard of Northern Ireland, when, in fact, the science tells us that, due to global warming, the water is getting warmer and the periwinkles are moving north.
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