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Written questions on the subject Northern Ireland Environment Agency


 
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AQW 5994/22-27 Mr Alan Chambers
(UUP - North Down)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether the Northern Ireland Environment Agency will publish live data on spills from storm overflows, similar to that of water companies in England and Wales.

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09/02/2024 Answered on 28/02/2024
AQW 4186/22-27 Ms Claire Sugden
(IND - East Londonderry)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) the average response time taken by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency to review consent for effluent discharge for a property; and (ii) what actions are being taken to improve these times, particularly when the review is needed for a house sale completion.

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06/10/2022 Answered on 18/10/2022
AQW 30715/17-22 Mr Daniel McCrossan
(SDLP - West Tyrone)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether he plans to establish an independent Northern Ireland environment agency.

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08/03/2022 Answered on 18/03/2022
AQW 23837/17-22 Mr Keith Buchanan
(DUP - Mid Ulster)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, in relation to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, to detail (i) how many requests for Freedom of Information were received; (ii) how many were responded to in full within 20 days; and (iii) how many were not responded to, in each of the last five years.

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07/10/2021 Answered on 21/10/2021
AQW 22176/17-22 Ms Kellie Armstrong
(APNI - Strangford)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to confirm how many weeks the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has taken to provide a statutory consultee response to planning applications for (i) 2019; (ii) 2020 and (iii) 2021 to date, broken down by council area.

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10/09/2021 Answered on 27/09/2021
AQW 18264/17-22 Miss Rachel Woods
(GPNI - North Down)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (i) to detail any byelaws, or other regulations made by his Department, or local councils, that prohibit the lighting of fires on land and that would apply to land owned by NIEA as per the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985; and (ii) to outline how any such legislation is enforced.

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30/04/2021 Answered on 17/05/2021
AQW 17847/17-22 Mr Jim Wells
(DUP - South Down)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs what arrangments have been put in place to ensure that all of the post sent to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency is opened regularly and actioned.

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23/04/2021 Answered on 10/05/2021
AQW 8773/16-21 Mr Harold McKee
(UUP - South Down)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) how the Northern Ireland Environment Agency calculate full cost recovery; and (ii) when this calculation was last reviewed.

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07/12/2016 Answered on 20/12/2016
AQW 8772/16-21 Mr Harold McKee
(UUP - South Down)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline (i) each of the efficiency measures taken by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency over each of the last five years; and (ii) the costs saved with each.

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07/12/2016 Answered on 21/12/2016
AQW 8771/16-21 Mr Harold McKee
(UUP - South Down)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to provide a breakdown on how much revenue the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has generated through fees in each of the last five years.

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07/12/2016 Answered on 20/12/2016
AQW 6699/16-21 Mr Harold McKee
(UUP - South Down)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the cost of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in each year since its formation; and to provide a breakdown of costs between administration and programmes.

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08/11/2016 Answered on 29/11/2016
AQW 6698/16-21 Mr Harold McKee
(UUP - South Down)
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for her assessment of the effectiveness of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in addressing environmental crime.

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08/11/2016 Answered on 21/12/2016
AQW 53250/11-16 Mr Steven Agnew
(GPNI - North Down)
To ask the Minister for Regional Development (i) whether her Department received an invitation to attend the Northern Ireland Environmental Agency Stakeholders' Group Derry on 25th November 2015; (ii) why no officials from her Department attended; and (iii) whether she will ensure that an official attends future meetings to address stakeholder's concerns.

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21/01/2016 Answered on 05/02/2016
AQW 50345/11-16 Mr Phil Flanagan
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)
To ask the Minister of the Environment what plans his Department has to increase the ability of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency to analyse dead fish to establish the cause of death in the event of pollution.

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04/11/2015 Answered on 26/11/2015
AQW 50046/11-16 Mr Steven Agnew
(GPNI - North Down)
To ask the Minister of the Environment to detail how many times the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has sent fish suspected of being killed to external test laboratories, in the last five years.

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21/10/2015 Answered on 18/11/2015
AQW 49309/11-16 Mr Steven Agnew
(GPNI - North Down)
To ask the Minister of the Environment (i) whether the Northern Ireland Environment Agency or his Department were aware of CDM Smith promoting, sponsoring and undertaking hydraulic fracturing or shale gas extraction before the award of their research contract; and (ii) for his assessment of whether the activities of CDM Smith constitute a conflict of interest in their leadership of a consortium tasked with undertaking independent scientific research into the dangers of hydraulic fracturing or shale gas extraction.

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30/09/2015 Answered on 13/10/2015
AQW 45745/11-15 Lord Morrow of Clogher Valley
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)
To ask the Minister of the Environment to detail the location of the fourteen large-scale excavations carried out for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency by Queen's University's Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork.

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14/05/2015 Answered on 01/06/2015
AQW 40915/11-15 Mr Steven Agnew
(GPNI - North Down)
To ask the Minister of the Environment what new environmental information was submitted after 10 September 2014 which has warranted a change in the Northern Ireland Environment Agency's position from one of recommending refusal on the basis of serious environmental concerns, to one of agreeing to approve a licence to abstract water for AIL/2008/0240; and why the Water Management Unit is not prepared to comment on whether such information was received, or make that information available to the public through open file inspection.

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19/01/2015 Answered on 29/01/2015
AQW 39089/11-15 Mr Danny Kinahan
(UUP - South Antrim)
To ask the Minister of the Environment for his assessment of the scale and manner of engagement between the Northern Ireland Environment Agency and (a) river trusts; and (b) angling clubs.

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20/11/2014 Answered on 04/12/2014
AQW 39088/11-15 Mr Danny Kinahan
(UUP - South Antrim)
To ask the Minister of the Environment how he ensures the Northern Ireland Environment Agency respond to concerns over rivers and provide answers on pollution incidents in a timely manner.

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20/11/2014 Answered on 03/12/2014
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