That's what Arlene Foster reckons it will cost over a period of 4 years to set up an Environmental Protection Agency. The Environment Minister has yet to announce her response to the recommendation, made by an independent team called in prior to the restoration of devolution, that such an agency should be created.
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Seems like a miniscule amount of money to actually bring us up to the same standard as the rest of the UK and Ireland, especially in the context of council sick leave costing Β£15 million per year. Has it really taken 7 months to get this far? I wonder how much money has been spent on reviewing the Environmental Governance Review?
Come on Arlene, make a positive decision and follow on the good work with refusing the Sweeney Causeway theme park!
For environmentalists, the Budget is the Budget that was not. The opportunity to create and fund an independent environmental protection agency has been let slip. Given that we have a three-year Programme for Government, we, therefore, arrive at the inescapable conclusion that nothing will be done on that front for at least three years. It is not a question of βNext year in Jerusalemβ, nor is it even a question of the year-after-next-year in Jerusalem. We remain the only part of the United Kingdom without an independent environmental protection agency. For those on the other side of the community divide, we remain the only part of the island of Ireland without an independent environmental protection agency.