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I speak as someone who proudly comes from a farming background. I miss milking the cows. I miss dehorning the calves. I miss covering the silage and experiencing the transition from hay to silage. I miss testing and dosing cattle. I have brought calves to market in the link box on the back of the tractor. I miss all…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh
Does my colleague agree that it is also important to note what Members have said about NI Water being a critical part of all of this? It is. They should, through the Executive, support a plan for funding NI Water, which we have not got at the moment.
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Last night, I was, I think, the only MLA who attended a meeting in Moortown at Kinturk cultural centre. That is exactly the sort of stuff that people there said that they did not want to hear: ping-ponging back and forward on ideological grounds; you blame, he blames, she blames. No disrespect, Jonny, but the message…
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No, but she will clarify that the farmers whom she knows are pig farmers, sheep farmers and cattle farmers. They do not tell me their creed or their voting affiliation before they speak to me: they are farmers.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh
In a moment. Words matter. Absolutely, words matter. That is why I cannot support the motion, particularly when it "expresses regret at the misguided support for a motion calling for a public consultation on the nutrients action programme to be withdrawn". I will give way in a moment, Mr O'Toole. Mr Tennyson and I…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh
As I mentioned earlier, the issue of blue-green algae is not new. It is happening around the world. My colleague Miss McIlveen set out the case for why my party believes that the Minister's proposed nutrients action programme is an existential threat to Northern Ireland's agriculture. It risks jobs, cuts livestock,…
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I thank the Member for giving way. We talk about irrigation and the need to oxidate the water to stop the blue-green algae. Does he agree that the lack of dredging of our rivers has hugely impacted on the flow of water in and out of Lough Neagh, affecting the river that he mentioned?
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Mr Speaker, you will be pleased to hear that most of my points have been covered already and that I will not repeat them. Toxic cyanobacteria blooms, especially in the summer of 2023 and 2024 as well as this year, have depleted oxygen levels in the lough to such an extent that they block light and lead to fish kills…
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I thank the Members for bringing the motion to the House. I will start by addressing one of the final points made by the Member who spoke previously, the Alliance Member for Upper Bann. We need to work with farmers. That is exactly what we need to do. We should work not with farmers alone but with everybody, but…
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By this stage, we all know that Lough Neagh is dying in plain sight. For the third summer in a row, toxic blue-green algae has enveloped its waters. That putrid green sludge has suffocated wildlife and upended key parts of our rural economy. However, the ecological crisis in Lough Neagh is not seasonal; its roots are…
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I thank my constituency colleague for kindly giving way. I recognise his concern for the farming community. He has rightly been an advocate for the farming community for quite a number of years. However, does he agree that the fines that are in place are no deterrent to those polluters, regardless of who they are or…
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The situation facing Lough Neagh and some other watercourses in Northern Ireland requires a common-sense approach that is balanced and rooted in reality. I have no doubt that everyone in the Chamber will be in agreement that to tackle effectively the source of the pollution affecting our waterways will require a…
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Sinn Féin is deeply concerned at the return of blue-green algae in Lough Neagh and other waterways. That pollution has severe environmental, economic and social consequences. Its continued presence harms biodiversity, threatens public health and is a hammer blow to our eel-fishing communities, which have already…
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I thank the Members who tabled the motion. People from all walks of life across Northern Ireland are concerned at the situation that is unfolding on Lough Neagh. They all want to have good-quality water in their inland waterways and, of course, in Lough Neagh, but I can say without a doubt that no one, for one moment,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh
At the start, I want to make it clear that the burden of solving Lough Neagh cannot be borne by DAERA alone. It is incumbent on the whole Executive and everyone in the Chamber to help deliver the Programme for Government commitment to protect Lough Neagh. While agriculture undoubtedly must play its part, we cannot…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh
I thank the Member for giving way and for the important work that she has done on the issue. Does the Member agree that, if the motion were to pass today, it would directly contradict a cross-party, cross-community vote in the House, which showed parties standing up for farmers?
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We can agree across the Chamber that we are concerned about the return of blue-green algae at Lough Neagh and other sites across Northern Ireland and the impact that it has had on many, including the eel fishery. We also agree that all necessary actions should be taken to address the problems. Where we do not agree is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh
Throughout this summer, the catastrophic pollution consuming Lough Neagh has become even more extreme, but it did not start this summer. The biodiversity and ecological well-being of our lough now faces a sustained existential threat, the like of which we have never seen. So too do the commercial fishing industry, the…
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I thank the Member for giving way. Does he accept that blue-green algae is not a recent phenomenon? It has been affecting freshwater lakes for well over a century. Does the Member accept that the NAP policy that the Minister brought forward was scrapped because it disproportionately put the blame at the farmer's door…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh
I beg to move We are here for a very short time, both on this earth, obviously, and in elected politics. Our time in politics — whoever we are — is brief, but Lough Neagh has been around since time immemorial. We have, therefore, been given the profound responsibility of being the custodians of our most precious…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Lough Neagh
Go raibh míle maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Some Members who are sitting across the House today appear to be bored by the fact that Sinn Féin is still talking about this matter. We cannot believe that it is still happening. That is why we are still talking about it, and, just to be clear, we will…
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