Some parties determined to destroy our economy
Carla Lockhart MP • February 3, 2022
Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has rounded on those parties who have chosen to pursue unrealistic and economically destructive climate change policies, ahead of the Consideration Stage: Climate Change (No. 2) Bill in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday. The Bill, brought forward by DAERA Minister Edwin Poots, is subject to amendments from Sinn Fein, the Alliance Party and Green Party, that would destroy our agri-food sector, hugely damaging a key pillar of our economy, and decimate rural communities.
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