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February 24, 2021 8:01 pm Long runs the fox as Shared Environmental Services (SES) continues to evade calls to provide evidence to a key Stormont Committee. Previously staff working for the Stormont committee said it has been “difficult” to get responses from the environmental planning quango. During the meeting on February 11, the committee warned it could be forced to use its legal powers to compel SES to attend. In the most recent meeting (held on February 18) members heard that despite further efforts by the committee clerk to contact the organisation, no response had been received. T...

Fault lines appear to be forming in the department's relationship with the Stormont Agriculture Committee.

February 19, 2021 5:02 pm Staff at an influential Stormont committee have said it has been “difficult” to get responses from an environmental planning quango set up by councils to oversee agricultural planning applications. The Stormont Agriculture Committee has warned it could now be forced to use its legal powers to compel Shared Environmental Services (SES) to attend. Section 44 of the 1998 Northern Ireland Act is not something triggered lightly. It gives the Northern Assembly the power to require any person to provide evidence or produce documents relating to transferred matters conce...