“Since I took up office in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine I have seen many initiatives being put in place to deliver both for farming and the environment. We’ve had the soil sampling programme, the farm environment study, the Life projects we support, and the All-Ireland pollinator plan. We are also building on our EIP knowledge and experience by incorporating into it new EIPs to help breeding waders and also to target water quality on intensive farms. Together, all the measures, combined with the really strong level of co-operation we have developed with the NPWS, will deliver results – for our farmers, for nature, for biodiversity, and for climate.”