Many thanks to agriculture Minister Andrew Muir MLA for meeting me today.

Issues discussed included:

🚜Rural isolation & mental health.

👩‍🌾The mental health needs of agri students & farming families.

🌾The impact of climate change on mental health, & youth climate anxiety.

The Environmental Farming Scheme is a great example of how we can work together to implement measures that promote sustainable farming practices which:

🌱 Nurture Biodiversity
💧 Improve Water Quality
🌍 Address Climate Change

Pleased to see these payments being made.

🌱 'I am both a friend to the environment, and a friend to farmers,' says Alliance DAERA Minister Andrew Muir MLA, speaking to View From Stormont.

To see success across the wider agricultural sector, both must go hand in hand 👇

📢Last call!
🐄Beef Carbon Reduction scheme began 1 Jan to improve efficiency & environmental sustainability of NI beef production
CAFRE are hosting 3 final info events this wk to make farmers aware of the scheme
🔗More info: daera-ni.gov.uk/news/cafre-hos… Ulster Farmers' Union nidirect

.Kate Nicholl secures UK and Ireland-wide childcare inquiry at British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly.

See more here -

allianceparty.org/nicholl_secure…

Welcome movement from DAERA Minister Andrew Muir MLA - delivering in keeping with climate act commitments.

A positive milestone in delivering on the Climate Change Act.

It is important that all public bodies take action to address climate change.

The BITC NI Responsible Business Awards are open for entries!

🗓️ Deadline: 26 April at 5:00pm

This year includes two new categories:
🧮 Skills & Education Award
🌱 Nature & Biodiversity Award

Enter below:
bitcni.org.uk/awards-categor…

Alliance activists are out and about in North Down today on behalf of Stephen Farry MP

If you want to play your part in ensuring North Down remains progressive, positive, liberal and welcoming, you can join Alliance here and send a message -

allianceparty.org/become_a_member

The weather didn't dampen our spirits at my Ministerial visit to Hunts Park, Donaghadee! 🌧️

Thanks to Connie Egan MLA for inviting me to see the community orchard and well done to the volunteers who planted it. 🌳🍎

Also to the International Tree Foundation for its support!

Cllr Hannah Irwin

Engaging panel discussion on skills and post Brexit opportunities & challenges at Alliance Party East Antrim Business Breakfast. Good to hear from DAERA minister Andrew Muir MLA too and his plans to bring forward action plan to tackle Lough Neigh pollution.

Really enjoyable morning at the East Antrim Alliance Party business breakfast at the Curran Court hotel in Larne. We were very well looked after and heard from my MLA colleagues Andrew Muir MLA & Sorcha Eastwood MLA & Trade NI reps from HOSPITALITY ULSTER, RetailNI & Manufacturing NI.

Started the day in Larne at Alliance Party East Antrim Business Breakfast. Great to hear Andrew Muir MLA talk positively about the role coastal, agrifood and green economy can play in making NI a better and more prosperous place.

Skills, tourism & export economy too.

Great to join colleagues and DAERA Minister Andrew Muir MLA at the official opening of the Hunt’s Park community orchard this morning!

Well done to volunteers from the Friends of Hunt’s Park group and DCDA for their hard work - looking forward to watching it grow 🌳

Great to talk this afternoon with students from Sullivan Upper School politics society. Lots of topical questions on domestic and international challenges

Great to see Minister Andrew Muir MLA in East Antrim this morning, hear his positive vision for adapting to climate change and the journey to net-zero emissions, which in Alliance we know is best achieved through a genuinely just transition to a greener economy.

Great morning at the East Antrim Alliance Business Breakfast, where I spoke about the opportunities of a greener economy.

In Alliance Party, we know that adapting to climate change and the journey to net-zero emissions must be achieved through a genuinely just transition.

Great to speak at the Alliance Party East Antrim Business Breakfast this morning! Great engagement with Manufacturing NI HOSPITALITY ULSTER RetailNI and many more. Alliance are prioritising skills, economic development & maximising our dual market access 🙂

Minister @andrewmuir tells MEA Alliance Party biz breakfast:

📍environment and agriculture go hand in hand
📍need for renewed focus on funding for just transition
📍public and private sectors working together key to success
📍first ever environment strategy to be published soon