To ask the Minister for Infrastructure when his Department intends to resume roadside grass cutting to the standard of five times per year.

In support of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, which contains a specific action ‘to promote pollinator-friendly management of the national road network in NI’, the Department has been engaged in the ‘Don’t Mow Let It Grow’ pilot project in conjunction with Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council, Northern Ireland Environment Agency and others. Details of this project can be found at: https://dontmowletitgrow.com/. Going forward I am keen that our grass cutting policy supports this plan more widely.