Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Monday 7 November 2016

On behalf of the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, the Economy Minister, Simon Hamilton, answered Members’ questions on: Farmers: AFSB Comments Sustainable Land Management Strategy TB Strategic Partnership Group Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Connswater River Climate Change Legislation Farm Business Improvement Scheme: Business Development Groups Farmers: Subsidies Reeves’s Muntjac Snares: Complete Ban… Continue Reading Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Monday 7 November 2016

Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Tuesday 25 October 2016

Michelle McIlveen, Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, answered questions on: Annsborough River: Pollution Litter Lough Neagh Fishermen’s Co-operative Society Basic Payment Scheme: Young Farmers Agriculture Policy and Brexit Bengoa Report: Rural Communities Rural Support Mentoring Programme Independent Environmental Protection Agency Basic Payment Scheme: Advance Payment PAC: Tony O’Neill’s Comments Basic Payment Scheme 2015:… Continue Reading Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Tuesday 25 October 2016

Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Monday 3 October 2016

Michelle McIlveen, Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, answered questions on: Agri-food Marketing Organisation Coastal Erosion Farmers: Poor Weather Snares Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 Brexit: Agri-food Sector Carrier Bag Levy: Review Brexit Consultative Committee Paris Agreement: NI Role Brexit: Loss of Income for Farmers NIEA: Farmers’ Concerns EU Milk Production Reduction Aid Scheme You… Continue Reading Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Monday 3 October 2016

Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs 20 September 2016

The Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs responded to questions on: Environmental Legislation; Farm Business Improvement Scheme; Brexit: Rural Economy; Spartina Cordgrass; Farmers: Cash Flow Difficulties; Environmental Farming Scheme; Animal Cruelty: Sentencing; Independent Environmental Protection Agency; LEADER Programme; Milk Production: EU Bureaucracy; AFBI: DAERA Support; Going for Growth: Update. You can read the transcript… Continue Reading Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs 20 September 2016

Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Tuesday 28 June 2016

Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs. Michelle McIlveen, responded to questions on: Going for Growth Diesel Spill: Larne Coastline Farmers: DAERA/DFE Support Rural Development Programme: Payments Single Farm Payments 2015 European Maritime and Fisheries Fund Farming: Island of Ireland Armagh: The “Orchard County” Environmental Protections: Brexit Impact Pork: China Sixmilewater: South Antrim Hunting with… Continue Reading Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Tuesday 28 June 2016

Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Monday 20 June 2016

Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Michelle McIlveen responded to questions on: Pork Farmers: West Tyrone Deciduous Woodland DARD HQ: Ballykelly Bovine TB: Food Production Dump: Mobuoy Road, Campsie EU Referendum: Rural Community Oil Spill: Port of Larne Brexit: Payment of Farm Subsidies Challenge Fund Coupled Payments/Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme LEADER Programme: Update… Continue Reading Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Monday 20 June 2016