AQW 9385/17-22

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 23/10/2020
Answered On Date: 17/11/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, in relation to the announcement for England, Scotland and Wales, what plans she has to introduce an early warning sewage monitoring system for COVID-19.

Answer:

The Department is engaged with DEFRA and other UK regulators on its participation in the UK wide programme on COVID-19 surveillance in wastewater.

DAERA are committed to funding a virus surveillance monitoring programme in Northern Ireland and are currently scoping this programme and securing its delivery mechanisms. This programme will be in place by December 2020