Ms Shirley Clerkin:

All agencies need to do more, including local authorities. All agencies need to play their part at this stage, with the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis. Young people will start to raise these types of issues more in the coming ten years. Certainly, the all-island pollinator plan, which most local authorities have signed up to, has resulted in a percentage of local authority land having changed its management practices to accommodate better pollinating practices, for example, by changing parkland into species-rich grassland. It has also been done through changes in management. I do not refer to the planting of new species or anything like that, but changing management practices, including, reducing pesticides, changing the grazing regime or changing the cutting regime. Much of it is about changing our habits. We have got into a bad set of habits that we need to look at and change. Then we will be able to do a lot more than we are at the moment, without a lot of difficulty.