Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any steps his Department has taken to create safeguards for farmers who cannot avail of the Farm Sustainability Payment, particularly the mushroom industry. Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs: For those farm businesses, including those within the … Continue reading AQW 36479/22-27 – Farm Sustainability Payment
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Health whether the Public Health Agency or the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry has made any request to his Department since June 2025 for environmental monitoring data on air, water and soil in relation to the reported increase in childhood cancers in Mid Ulster. [Priority Written] … Continue reading AQW 36392/22-27 – Environmental monitoring data requests
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any measures her Department is taking to increase capacity at the Loup Wastewater Treatment Works. Minister for Infrastructure: The management of public wastewater infrastructure is an operational matter for NI Water. However, I have sought the requested information from NI Water and … Continue reading AQW 35420/22-27 – Capacity at the Loup Wastewater Treatment Works
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister for Infrastructure when she will publish the minutes of the 13 meetings, between the 9 August 2022 and 27 June 2024, that officials from her Department held with officials from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on the factual position and legal position around … Continue reading AQW 32925/22-27 – A5 Western Transport Corridor
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any assessment her Department has made of the impact on the proposed A29 Cookstown Bypass of the factual position and legal position around (a) emission targets; (b) carbon budgets; and (c) the Climate Action Plan; (ii) when the assessment was carried … Continue reading AQW 32924/22-27 – A29 Cookstown Bypass
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any assessment she has made of the benefits of introducing measures to encourage the use of hydrotreated vegetable oil in domestic oil-heating systems. Minister for the Economy: Earlier this year, following a period of stakeholder engagement, my Department carried out call … Continue reading AQW 34116/22-27 – Hydrotreated vegetable oil
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail when financial payments will be provided to fishermen on Lough Neagh whose livelihoods have been affected by the impact of the continued occurrence of blue-green algae. [Priority Written] Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs: I have engaged … Continue reading AQW 32926/22-27 – Lough Neagh fishermen blue-green algae
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the number of occasions the Health and Safety Executive had reason to contact NI Water about health and safety practices at that organisation, since September 2024; (ii) any health and safety shortcomings identified as a consequence of that contact with … Continue reading AQW 30018/22-27 – NI Water health and safety practices
